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transform XML to PDF

sakeson — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:49:31 GMT

I have created a template to extract and format the informaiton I need out of an XML file. Can I use the template to create a new document such as a PDF?Thanks.

Re: transform XML to PDF

kevinr — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:46:33 GMT

Not easily, templates can only really output text based data formats. However the javascript API supports calling the various transformation services including PDF generation. So you could in theory use a template to generate the first state of your output and then execute a script against that to transform it to PDF.

Thanks,

Kevin

Re: transform XML to PDF

sakeson — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:04:10 GMT

Then maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way. My XML data presents properly when I preview it in a template but when browsing the space if I open the XML document the template is not applie, rather it opens in the browser with the XML tree. I have defined the custom view to apply the template. Am I using the wrong method to view the document if I want the template used?

Thanks,
sakeson