[RndTbl] Page Layout

I need to take a list of medications, display it on a screen which will allow a user to edit the list, and print it in a number of different forms (list for the patient, a hospital progress note, prescription pads). The printed forms have lines, etc, and could have geometric figures such as a logo. The input will likely be in XML.

The display could be done with XHTML. The printed forms could be done using LaTeX commands, but I imagine it would be painful to program. I could learn postscript. I assume Acrobat's pdf is proprietary and cannot be used. I have heard of an XML based page layout language, and such a solution would lend itself to an XSLT transformation.

Does anyone have suggestions?