Subject: Re: [xsl] xml to pdf or word From: Bertrand Delacretaz <bdelacretaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:54:10 +0200 |
On Wednesday 24 October 2001 15:43, Adam Darwin wrote: > How would one use this FOP processor in ASP? You wouldn't ;-) Seriously, I think interfacing FOP with ASP at the API level (i.e. with java method calls) could be an integration nightmare with various JVM and class libraries problems. I would suggest calling FOP using HTTP requests, which FOP would in turn relay to your ASP data-generating page. Cocoon (http://xml.apache.org/cocoon2) could be used to provide the "glue" to make this work. Here's the scenario: a) client makes an HTTP request to Cocoon on a specific path b) on this path a Cocoon "pipeline" is configured to: b1) get XML data from your ASP page using HTTP b2) possibly use an XSLT transform to generate an XSL-FO document b3) use FOP to generate a PDF document c) client receives the PDF document from Cocoon as a response to its original request. In this way, your ASP page stays in use as a pure XML generator, and the XML-to-PDF conversion is nicely modularized using Cocoon as the "XML-to-PDF filter". To get this working you would need to know: -How to install Cocoon and configure a pipeline -How to have Cocoon make HTTP requests to "back-end" servers -XSL-FO vocabulary -XSLT to transform your XML Looks like a lot but this knowledge is reusable for a lot of different purposes. Hope this helps. -- -- Bertrand Delacrétaz, www.codeconsult.ch -- web technologies consultant - OO, Java, XML, C++ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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