Pretty Printing From An XML File?

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 14, 2004 @10:45AM from the xml-is-be-all-end-all-except dept.

Omega1045 writes "Where I work we are developing a new product that receives an XML document (on a W2k workstation), and we need to format and print said document. We are currently using XSLT + CSS to build a cool little HTML page out the the XML, then use a browser to print out the HTML. However, while HTML is a nice format for display, it is not a nice format for printing. We have messed around with the idea of spitting out Rich Text with XSLT. However, Rich Text is confusing and quite frankly sucks. We are looking for a (free if possible) format that we can translate our XML document into via XSLT, and print. The best idea we have at this point is to translate into a Word or OpenOffice XML schema document, and use one of those applications to print. Other ideas?"

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A project the does what you mention... by dJCL · 2004-10-14 14:22 · Score: 1, Redundant

I just happened to be updating my resume again, decided to make it XML based and found the xml resume library on sourceforge (xmlresume.sourceforge.net)

One of their XSLT transforms the XML to a PDF file, maybe that would be a good place to look. I only found this today, and since I'm only just learning XML, I don't know how well this applies... Enjoy!

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