Coverting xml to PDF

[Niels]

HI

Is there an easy way of converting an XML file into a PDF file (Given that the right stylesheet is there)

Niels

 

[Piet]

Hi Niels,

Is there an easy way of converting an XML file into a PDF file (Given that the right stylesheet is there)

in principle this is possible but not in a single step, as far as I have understood it. First you have to embed the information from your XML file in an
XML:fo file. FO stands for formatting objects and defines a possible output path for informations stored in XML files. You then have to transform the resulting FO-file into PDF via an XSL-fo processor such as the FOP processor from the apache project (http://xml.apache.org/#fop). However, I have no idea how the transformation xml->xml:fo->pdf works in detail, but there should be plenty of syntax and other information around in the inet. Godd luck Piet