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Subject: Re: convert XML to PDF in my ada application
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 05:40 -0700, evangeli@cnam.fr wrote:
> hello !
> i am writing an ada application which can generate some outputs in an
> xml format.
> i would also like to generate a pdf file of this output.
> is this possible?

You could write or reuse one or more XSL style
sheets/transformations.

XML --+
       \--> FO --> PDF
       /
XSL --+

This setup can represent one program, or a connection by
by pipes, collaborating processes, etc.

FO means Flow Objects. There are a number processors taking FOs
to PDF, including Apache Fop, RenderX XEP, and Antenna House 
XSL Formatter.

Another option is to use a text processor like FrameMaker,
OpenOffice Write, Ventura, etc., and feed them the XML data,
after teaching them how to render this kind of XML data.

HTH,
 Georg