Convert XML to PDF using XSLT

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Hi everybody,

does any one ever used XSLT to convert an XML file to a PDF file. could you please send me any exemple of this kind of transform. is there any editor that create this kind of transform?

thanks

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Raphael,
You can’t convert directly from XML to PDF with XSLT. What you can do is convert from XML to an XSL-FO (Formatting Objects) document using XSLT. You then take the XSL-FO document and run it through a rendering engine to produce your PDF.

A widely accepted, freeware (I believe) rendering engine is FOP. More advanced functionality is also available via commercial packages from the likes of RenderX. Sorry I don’t have links to them handy, but they should be easy enough to find on the Web.

I don’t have much hands-on experience doing this, but if you like I can point you to some better resources on the subject. HTH.

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You can check out iText if you need something quick and dirty. I used it in conjunction with Integration Server. I put the jar file in the /lib/jars directory and wrote simple java services.

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It will give you a quick and dirty to see if this is a good approach for you.

HTH

Ray

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Michael and Ray,

thanks a lot for your help.

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anyone know how to parse pdf’s in IS to generate corresponding XML documents?

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Hi,
Can any one tell me the use of openLatch() method and if you have any java service using this can be useful for me to understand…

regards
shanti