Re: xml to pdf conversion

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Earl Spencer wrote:

> Hi folks,
>             I want to convert an xml document to pdf format i just started
> working on it .Can anybody who already did that give me some guidelines or
> any links and tell me what the best way is to convert an xml file to pdf
> file.
>

Learn how to write XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO).  Write an XSLT
stylesheet that will transform your input XML document into an XSL-FO
document.  Apply that stylesheet to your XML.  Use an XSL-FO to PDF
converter like the Apache Project's FOP (http://xml.apache.org/) or
PassiveTeX (http://users.ox.ac.uk/~rahtz/passivetex/) to do the final
conversion from XSL-FO to PDF.

The draft XSL spec (http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/) is the normative
reference for formatting objects.  Read that if you want to get the final
word on XSL-FO.  The reference for FOP and Norman Walsh's XSL tutorial
also cover XSL-FO.

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