Re: Help to convert an XML document to another format

[Luke]

Hi Jimmy;   One approach is to convert the XML document to an FO document (an XSL template can be created for this conversation). This can then be used to create a PDF document using FOP.   Take a look at this article. The author takes a basic XML document, creates an XSL template to convert it to an FO document and than, using FOP, generates a PDF document. You should be able to this as a guideline for your own document:   http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/10/16/fop.html?page=1   For a good XSL reference online:   http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/   Also if you are new to XSL (but think you may start using it), I recommend investing in these books:   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1861005946/qid=1122845518/sr=8-13/ref=pd_bbs_13/103-8986387-6628644?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764543814/qid=1122845518/sr=8-4/ref=pd_bbs_4/103-8986387-6628644?v=glance&s=books&n=507846   Hope this helps,   Luke ----- Original Message ----- From: Jimmy Pierre To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org ; fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 5:07 PM Subject: Help to convert an XML document to another format Greetings,   I am not a programmer, so when I encounter the type of problem that I will expose, I am ever so grateful :-)   I have a report per machine and the report can only be saved in XML.   I would like to now convert the report in whatever, HTML, DOC, PDF, spreadsheet etc. The issue is that I need to be able to exploit it.   I have posted the report on my site:   http://www.cisware.co.uk/xmlproblem it’s only 20 K   Anybody could give me a tool to just convert this thing? I am fluent in English/French .   Best wishes, Jimmy