Yannick Warnier wrote: > but you can't generate a PDF using XML and XSLT, although XSLT is, to > my understanding, made to enable export in various formats from the > same XML file.
XSLT is a style language, and you could quite possibly make it produce a PDF. > It seems that in this case (exporting from XML to PDF), you need to > first convert the XML to a XSL-FO format (using XSLT) and then convert > that XSL-FO format into PDF, and the only way to do that last step at > the moment seems to be to use Apache's FOP project, which requires > Java and a server-side component that you are unlikely to be > authorized to install on a low-cost hosting server. There is more than one way to skin a cat. I generate PDFs in batch using an OpenOffice document template (which is XML anyway), merge that with my XML data using xalanc, and then openoffice to create the PDF. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
