This might be a stupid question but can you generate a PDF file from an XML file by using an XSL file to display it ( .... the same way you can display HTML from XML?)
I know there are tools out there that can do it, but I wanted to know if it was just a question of tagging data so it displayed as in PDF format just the same way you markup data so it displays as HTML.
slightly more complex than that, yes xsl can transform xml into pdf but this is done with a different member of the xsl family XSL-FO rather than xslt that is used for xml to html/xml/text etc. XSLT is more widely supported so numerous programs and languages now have an xslt engine, the only free xsl-fo engine i know of is apache fop that runs on java although there is a pear project to get this working with php also.
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