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Subject: Re: [xsl] xml > xhtml > xsl-fo > pdf
From: Emmanouil Batsis <Emmanouil.Batsis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:58:27 +0300

Braum|ller wrote:

is in the wwww out there, some example how to chain via a java-servlet maybe in xalan a transformation via xslt from xml to xhtml

You'd need a stylesheet designed for this specific XML vocabulary.

and from xhtml apply another xslt to transform to xsl-fo (for this step exists ready to use stylesheets)and then generate pdf.



Two transformations for one request could be rather expensive. Cocoon[1] is great in doing stuff like that with good performance (by either using SAX transformers or caching XSLT transforms) and reusability of components [2] but it's learning curve could be too much for your needs.


A sample of a servlet based transformer can be found at [3]. You can also use some tag library within JSP for this stuff if it makes you more confortable, take a look at [4].

[1] http://cocoon.apache.org/
[2] combined into 'pipelines' like read>transform>transform>whatever>serialize
[3] http://www.w3.org/2001/05/xslt
[4] http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/


hth,

Manos


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