RE: transforming xml to text with formatting

"Text", as we normally think of it (ASCII), does not have italic or bold attributes (or font or size attributes, for that). It's just text: A,b,1,(,* .

Rich Text Format (RTF) may suit your purposes. It is found as an alternate format for most Microsoft application files (e.g., Word, Excel, WordPad). Here is a URL for the 1.5 spec (http://www.biblioscape.com/rtf15_spec.htm). Here is a URL for the 1.6 spec (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnrtfspec/html/RTFSpec_1.asp). 

You can transform XML directly into RTF or you could go through an intermediate XML format like XSL-FO. You may find this book to be useful, I did (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rtfpg/index.html).
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Charles Knell
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Subject:   transforming xml to text with formatting

This will be a simple one, I am sure, for most of you. However, I am trying to transform xml to text with formatting such as bold, indent, italics, line breaks etc.

Could you tell me what I would need to do this (including an online tutorial, books etc.).

Much appreciated.