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To add to what Mike says--
At 11:16 AM 10/15/01, he wrote: > Can anyone help me in knowing that why XSL cannot be > written to translate the xml to PDF. > > I asked this kinda question earlier also but I did not > get a very good response may be I was not clear that > time. And "extremely" is an understatement here. Mike is also being kind, because he is reading you to mean "XSL*T* [not just "XSL"] ... to translate the XML to PDF". He is very aware of the fact (although not all people are, particularly newer users) that XSL = XSLT + XSLFO, and that although XSL is indeed intended to provide general solutions to exactly the kind of problem you have -- XML to PDF -- that this is not meant to be done by XSLT alone. Do some research into XSL Formatting Objects. Keep in mind that XSLFO technology is much less mature than XSLT. It is also *theoretically* possible to go straight through XSLT to an output like PDF, but (a) it is very far from trivial (figuring out how many characters will fit on a line is just the tip of the iceberg), and (b) you will be reinventing what the XSL Recommendation itself will specify when the Formatting Objects part of the solution is done. That having been said, FOs, while not "mature" or even "finished" are still already good enough to take you a certain distance. So don't start chopping a path through the unmarked wilderness, when there's a big highway construction project going on right by you (what? you haven't heard the drilling?). Also, as others have described in recent weeks, there are other pathways. For example, many applications people use for page layout, which can create very nice PDF, can import HTML tolerably well these days. So XML via XSLT to clean HTML can get you much of the way to PDF. Cheers, Wendell
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