I've experimented with both XEP (www.renderx.com, I think), and FOP, and got
both to work in a "semi-dynamic" fashion. That is, I've got a front-end
engine that calls sablot to convert my XML into an "internal" XML format,
then calls it again with an XSL:FO stylesheet to make a .fo file, then I
feed that through the PDF generator. Unfortunately, neither XEP nor FOP, as
far as I remember, could work with stdin/stdout -- that is, I needed to
write a temporary file out to disk (ick), and then read that in to generate
the PDF file.
I also do some rudimentary caching, in that, if the source .xml file (in a
non-dynamic sense) has not been modified more recently than the .pdf file
that was written in the above steps, then it just feeds out the pdf
automatically.
you'll probably need to go down a similar path...
david.
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Militello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 2:11 PM
To: Sablotron Mailing List
Subject: RE: [Sab] XML --> PDF (or other printabl formats)
That does seem like a very easy package to use,
however, it seems that it can only do flat files. I need to be able to make
PDF's out of dynamic content. (My XML is dynamic).
And I would rather not have to make a whole lot of temp files for people to
download.
-Greg
