Re: [xsl] Converting XML into ODT document to print as paper

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 24.09.2020 um 09:57 schrieb Manuel Souto Pico terminolator@xxxxxxxxx:

> I would need to convert XML to something that has a fixed page layout
> ready to print, like ODT/OOXML or PDF.
>
> I know OOXML is complex, but since the final document needs to be
> printed and keep the same layout, probably HTML output is not good for
> this (I guess!).
>
> What I need at the moment is just a quick and dirty proof of concept to
> show that this conversion is feasible and not too difficult, to show it
> to decision makers (I'm not a XSLT developer myself).


There are frameworks like https://transpect.github.io/ that should help,
you will need to transform your XML format to one of the supported ones
(e.e. Hub) and then use the provided stylesheeets to generate PDF or ODT.