RE: xml->xsl->pdf

Also, there are some alternatives to FOP:

Antenna House:
http://www.antennahouse.com/
XEP, from RenderX:
http://www.renderx.com/
PassiveTex:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~rahtz/passivetex/
Unicorn Formatting Objects:
http://www.unicorn-enterprises.com/products_ufo.html

Personally I use Antenna House and FOP.  Antenna House is extremely easy to
use and seems to implement the spec more completely, while FOP integrates
well with the other Apache Java/XML projects.

In addition to the XSL FAQ section that Jim mentions, there's a good FO
introduction online at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible/updates/15.html

Also, Brett McLaughlin has online a chapter from Java and XML that includes
FOP/FO discussion at:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaxml/chapter/ch09.html


HTH,

Max
www.siliconpublishing.org/


hello jon,

u wanna take a look at the xsl:fo as u will use this to generate
instructions that can then be translated to pdf using a FOP processor
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect3.html

take a looksee at the FOP stuff at apache
http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html

for the simple things its fairly easy once u have set up FOP processor, but
learning xsl:fo is definately an investment.

good luck, jim fuller


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