Hello, I'm currently researching a bit on a possible PDF export format for some of my application's output. So far, what I get is this: - some packages allow PDF generation (FPDF, EZPDF, etc) from nothing - some packages allow generation of PDF from HTML, using the ps format - some packages allow generation of PDF from XML, using XSL-FO and FOP Somehow, I'm having difficulties understanding why you can make a PDF out of nothing (using only a set of PHP classes) but you can't generate a PDF using XML and XSLT, although XSLT is, to my understanding, made to enable export in various formats from the same XML file. It seems that in this case (exporting from XML to PDF), you need to first convert the XML to a XSL-FO format (using XSLT) and then convert that XSL-FO format into PDF, and the only way to do that last step at the moment seems to be to use Apache's FOP project, which requires Java and a server-side component that you are unlikely to be authorized to install on a low-cost hosting server. Does anybody have a good insight on all this and could tell me what's wrong and why there seems to be a missing link between XML and PDF...? Thanks in advance, Yannick -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
