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I have a jsp page that calls a Tag .tld and with this is passed the paramters for the xml file and the xsl file. However I get an error every time saying "Directive: Invalid attibue, prefix". Any Ideas what can be wrong?
 
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Have you declared the taglib in the JSP file ? or in the web.xml ?
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What is the XSL file you use to transform XML to PDF ?
Moreover, anyone knows differents adapters for transforming XML (respecting a DTD or Shema) into PDF, or Word ...
URLs are welcome!
 
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Originally posted by Guillaume Compagnon:
Moreover, anyone knows differents adapters for transforming XML (respecting a DTD or Shema) into PDF, or Word ...
URLs are welcome!


XSL Formatting Objects can be used to transform XML into PDF, albeit indirectly. You need to use a tool like Apache's Fop (Formatting Objects Processor) to take the XSL-FO document and convert it to PDF. The whole transformation process looks like this:
XML document + XSLT Stylesheet = XSL-FO document
XSL-FO document + Fop = PDF
You can find Fop on the Apache XML Project site.
I actually wrote an XML to Word converter a couple of years ago and taught a course on it at the SDExpo show this spring. You can see the presentation and the source code (it's a Word VBA application) on my web site. The class was called XML & Microsoft Word.
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Thx U a lot for your tips, Scott!
as a former from MS, do you know any initiative from Microsoft Office in order to improve MSXML and to deploy XML in Word application ( a "Save as XML file" button in Word) ?
 
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For some more insight into greating pdf, from FOP:
http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/XML/INTCXX/page9.html
The article is about using Cocoon, but XSL is going to be basically the same.
 
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Originally posted by Guillaume Compagnon:
Thx U a lot for your tips, Scott!
as a former from MS, do you know any initiative from Microsoft Office in order to improve MSXML and to deploy XML in Word application ( a "Save as XML file" button in Word) ?


Sorry, I've been out of the loop. I left back in '93, and things have changed a LOT since then. Most of my friends are either retired or too high-up in the organization to really know what is going on :-)
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