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

Subject: Re: [xsl] Converting XML into ODT document to print as paper
From: "Willem Van Lishout willemvanlishout@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 08:12:19 -0000
Open/Libre Office also has a single-file XML format that you can use for
this purpose.



On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 10:08 AM Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

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