Fop xml to pdf

Download FOP and Ant in their binary editions and let's get started. The natural choice for this step is an XSL stylesheet, since it allows us to define specific conversion instructions for each XML element.

Here is the XSL stylesheet for this task:. This process occurs recursively for each XML element, and it's from the contents of these templates that another document is constructed that will represent our XSL-FO tree.

This is one of the reasons FOP is still in its x. FOP does offer fancier formatting elements, but for simplicity's sake we do not address them here. Consult FOP's documentation to discover its additional formatting capabilities. Runomu Runomu 5 5 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. With such an input, you can't apply an XSL transformation like you want to in your Java code. You have to transform xml to xsl-fo with xslt, then fop will make a pdf out of that. And then to pdf from fo.

But it didnt work. Please share the xsl that you use to create fo-xml — Siebe Jongebloed. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Stack Gives Back Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses.

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