This question has probably been asked a hundred times, although I don't see anything in the FAQ.
Is there a package that lets you create PDF from an XML representation of a document? What I have in mind is being able to write an XML document, something like this: <font id="my-font" font-face="Palatino" /> <style id="my-style" font="my-font" size="12" /> <style id="emphasis" weight="bold" color="red" /> <paragraph style="my-style">This is an <span style="emphasis">example</span> paragraph.</paragraph> ... (more paragraphs...) This XML would then be streamed into a writer (i.e. a java.io.Writer implementation) which is actually a bridge to iText API calls and would build the PDF. The fact that it's done as a Writer makes it possible to generate the XML from a Velocity template and stream it right out to generate the PDF correctly. I actually did something like this a while ago, although it used a custom syntax (not XML, and not particularly readable or easy to maintain). It struck me that something like this would be useful enough that someone, somewhere has probably already done it. Does anyone on this list know of something that will do something like this? The reason I ask is that I have a Spring MVC web application project which will require PDF output and at the moment the perceived solution is to create custom PdfView classes for each document type that's required; I'd prefer to have one generic view class that can accept an XML document template and merge it with the model map to create the required PDFs. While I could create such a thing myself, I'm not about to reinvent something that already does what I need. --Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
