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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W. Scott Means author,
Strategic XML [email protected]