I'm new to this list, so please redirect and/or forgive if I'm asking something that is well established. I didn't see anything in the iText FAQ about this.
I would like to use iText to build a service that produces instances of forms in PDF. But more specifically, I would like to start with 1) an xml data file/stream; and 2) an xsl-fo formatting transform. I would like to have the xml contain the variable data on the form (e.g. name, address, images, etc), and the xsl:fo transforms represent the form-specific 'template' data (field names, boxes, lines, layout, margins, pictures, etc.).
The service would apply the xsl-fo transform to the xml data to produce a DOM, and then take this DOM and create a pdf out of it (preferably using iText). The first part is easy enough using xerces/xalan (e.g.), but the second part doesn't seem to yet exist in the open source world AFAIK. Adobe has a 'Document Server' product that seems to do this: http://partners.adobe.com/asn/ads/index.jsp which they are offering as an enterprise product.
1) Are there any plans to add on xml/xsl parsing/transformation apis to iText?
2) Does iText have sufficient semantics to be able to implement the second part of above? (please forgive the lack of detailed iText knowledge exposed by this question)
3) Is there any desire on the part of this dev community to do this?
4) Would there be any interest in having someone (me) do such a project along with others?
Thanksinadvance for any information,
Scott
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