Prerequisite: Make sure you followed the procedure in the
Installing section.
The following procedure provides a simple example for using Oxygen PDF Chemistry to style
an XML document:
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Start with a simple XML document to test the installation. Save it as
my_doc.xml.
<article>
<title>Hello World!</title>
<p>My first document.</p>
</article>
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Create a CSS stylesheet in the same folder. Save it as
my_style.css.
article, title, p {
display: block
}
title {
font-size:larger;
border-bottom: 1pt solid blue;
}
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Open a command-line console, change directory to the folder that contains your samples,
and invoke:
chemistry -in my_doc.xml -css my_style.css -out my_doc.pdf
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Open the result in your PDF reader.
