Quoting Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 3. iText support xml transformation to pdf. Do we need to provide xslt > for > > it? Is it possible to construct the xml file in memory and pass the data > > stream for pdf construction? > > I'll leave this one for Bruno.
XSLT: If you need XSLTs depends on the original XMLs you have. In my own projects I was able to define the DTD/schema of the XML myself, so I worked with tags that could easily be mapped to iText tags. For instance I had a tag <studentname /> in a study contract and I mapped this tag to a Chunk with the name of a student coming from our database. If you already have existing XMLs, a translation can be necessary. Especially if you have content in attributes. iText can't do anything with attributes. XML FILE IN MEMORY: That's exactly what I do: I have an XML file that is read from disk and I parse it twice: first to replace a tag <courses /> with a table containing all the courses of a student in a certain year. The result is an XML file that is kept only in memory. Then I pass this XML through a custom SAXiTextHandler that creates the PDF. HTH, Bruno ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
