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On 24/09/2020 08:57, Manuel Souto Pico terminolator@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I would need to convert XML to something that has a fixed page layout ready to print, like ODT/OOXML or PDF. Do you want other people to be able to edit the result? ODT/OOXML are designed to be editable; PDF is not. I know OOXML is complex, but since the final document needs to be printed and keep the same layout, probably HTML output is not good for this (I guess!). A good web designer can probably create a layout that looks the same and honours the paged-media CSS, but I don't think there are any guarantees. What I need at the moment is just a quick and dirty proof of concept to show that this conversion is feasible and not too difficult, to show it to decision makers (I'm not a XSLT developer myself). XSLT will certainly be involved IMNSHO. My personal preference would be XML > LaTeX > PDF but not everyone knows LaTeX. My first thought was to unzip the ODT model I have, look at the content.xml inside and then try to transform my XML into that same structure (as suggested here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38298174/directly-convert-a-single-xml-file-to-docx). That is indeed possible. Just complicated. However, probably that's the hard way... You spotted it :-) I'm doing some research, any tips or pointers or advice or recommendation or examples here would be highly appreciated. Is there any best practice to do this? or a ready-made solution?
Peter
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