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Can XSLT transform XML to PDF?

Can XSLT transform XML to PDF?

You can’t convert directly from XML to PDF with XSLT. What you can do is convert from XML to an XSL-FO (Formatting Objects) document using XSLT.

How do I create an XSLT PDF?

Here’s how to proceed.

  1. Create the work directory. Under build/webapp, create a new directory and name it html-pdf.
  2. Create the XML example documents.
  3. Create the XSLT transform for HTML.
  4. Create the sitemap.
  5. Test the HTML publishing.
  6. Create the XSLT transform for PDF.
  7. Test the PDF publishing.

How XML is converted into HTML format using XSLT?

The standard way to transform XML data into other formats is by Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT). You can use the built-in XSLTRANSFORM function to convert XML documents into HTML, plain text, or different XML schemas. XSLT uses stylesheets to convert XML into other data formats.

How do I create an XML PDF?

To convert XML to pdf from this program:

  1. Browse for the XML file by clicking File->Open or pressing Ctrl+O.
  2. Click File->Print or press Ctrl+P to open the Printer window.
  3. Select novaPDF from the printers list and click Print.
  4. Select after save actions if needed and click OK to convert the XML.

What is XML FO?

XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects) is a markup language for XML document formatting that is most often used to generate PDF files. XSL-FO is part of XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language), a set of W3C technologies designed for the transformation and formatting of XML data.

How do I get XSLT from XML?

Execute an XSLT transformation from an XML file

  1. Open an XML document in the XML editor.
  2. Associate an XSLT style sheet with the XML document. Add an xml-stylesheet processing instruction to the XML document.
  3. On the menu bar, choose XML > Start XSLT Without Debugging. Or, press Ctrl+Alt+F5.

How do you display XML with XSLT?

XSLT is used to transform XML document from one form to another form. XSLT uses Xpath to perform matching of nodes to perform these transformation . The result of applying XSLT to XML document could be an another XML document, HTML, text or any another document from technology perspective.

What is a PDF XML file?

File saved in the PDFXML format, an XML representation of a . PDF file that was developed as part of the Mars Project at Adobe Labs, but was later discontinued; allows interchange of PDF content between applications using XML.

How use XSLT is XML?

Execute an XSLT transformation from an XSLT style sheet

  1. Open an XSLT style sheet in the XML editor.
  2. Specify an XML document in the Input field of the document Properties window. The XML document is the input document used for transformation.
  3. On the menu bar, choose XML > Start XSLT Without Debugging.

How XSLT works with XML?

How to bind XML and XSLT files to a PDF file?

Bind the input XML and XSLT files to the instance of PDF class by calling its BindXML method // The path to the documents directory. string dataDir = RunExamples. GetDataDir_AsposePdf_WorkingDocuments ();

How to convert an XML file to a PDF file?

Sometimes you may have existing XML files that contain application data and you want to generate PDF report using these files. You can use XSLT to transform your existing XML document to Aspose.Pdf’s compatible XML document and then generate PDF file.

Why can’t I convert HTML to XSL-FO?

The XSL-FO engines read XSL-FO to know how to render it, so just copying HTML elements (bound to an HTML namespace or without a namespace) into an XSL-FO file will not work. Take a look at HTML2FO. It might take care of the majority of your needs.