RE: [xsl] xml to pdf or word

["Paul Brown" <prb at fivesight dot com>]

Head for the web and look up how to use a Java class as a COM object.  There
are articles at MSDN on how to do it with some of the Microsoft Java
classes. (Q167941)  You do need to use the Microsoft VM, and that's only
1.1.4... so you're probably out of luck with a Java FO processor.  (With
FOP, you need Batik which in turn needs Java 1.3+.)

You can also build (or hopefully just borrow) an ISAPI component that
communicates with a servlet on a local socket.  This means that your IIS/ASP
faces the world and it uses an ISAPI component to proxy the information from
a servlet running on your internal network.  We have a customer that uses
this very configuration to do a different version of what you're trying.

Paul Brown
FiveSight Technologies, Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Adam Darwin
> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 8:43 AM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: Re: [xsl] xml to pdf or word
>
>
> How would one use this FOP processor in ASP?
>
> Are there any working examples/tutorials out on the
> web?
>
> regards,
>
> Adam
>
>  --- cutlass <cutlass@secure0.com> wrote: > STEP 1
> > xml+xslt -------> an xsl-fo marked up document
> >
> > STEP 2 ( magic )
> > there is a FOP processor which converts xsl-fo
> > -----> PDF
> >
> >
> > there are other methods
> >
> >
> > cheers, jim fuller
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Adam Darwin" <addarwin@yahoo.co.uk>
> > To: <xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 11:12 AM
> > Subject: Re: [xsl] xml to pdf or word
> >
> >
> > > I still don't get this.  I think i'm being really
> > > stupid, but....
> > >
> > > The way I think it should work is that I have some
> > > xml, which I translate through an xslt using the
> > xslt
> > > formatting objects.  This is all done dynamically
> > by a
> > > user accessing an asp page, selecting a few
> > options
> > > and pressing a button.  the pdf then magically
> > pops up
> > > on the screen.
> > >
> > > From the examples I have found on the net, I can't
> > see
> > > how this works, as they seem to create the pdfs
> > before
> > > hand and not on the fly (i.e. using java compiler)
> > >
> > > Is what I want to do possible?
> > >
> > > am I just being stupid?
> > >
> > > all help is greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > >
> > > Adam
> > >
> > >  --- Mailer Mailer <maillistboxes@yahoo.com>
> > wrote: >
> > > Hi Adam,
> > > >
> > > > I have done this kind of work, but my pdf views
> > are
> > > > very simple. My architecture that there will be
> > an
> > > > xml, which should be validated my DTD and I have
> > > > created an xsl which will generate the PDF with
> > that
> > > > information. My requirement was to create an
> > > > existing
> > > > xml to PDF. I converted that XML to another XML
> > and
> > > > then finally converted to PDF.
> > > > Please see the PDF structure first, it is a tree
> > > > structure and suitable to be represented as XML.
> > > > Check examples in PDFSpecs1.3
> > > >
> > > > -Deep
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --- Adam Darwin <addarwin@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > > Thanks, but (and I may be missing something
> > here)
> > > > > these are compiled with java.  I need to
> > generate
> > > > > the
> > > > > pdf on the fly, so that a user selects a
> > number of
> > > > > options, clicks a button and the pdf opens in
> > > > their
> > > > > browser/computer.
> > > > >
> > > > > is this possible?
> > > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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