HTML + CSS print is usually a good-enough solution. You may have a look
to https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer or to one of its
fork.
I actually work on a maven-plugin that transform markdown to our
exercise-book odt format, with quite a good result. But it's a very
specific layout, and for now, is not open-source.
Flyingsaucer is probably your solution, as it is already ready-to-use.
Christophe
Le 24/09/2020 à 10:24, Jean-Paul Rehr rehrjb(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com a écrit :
>ready-made solution?
Ready-made solutions usually are domain/standard specific (like
TEI-XML for book editions, etc). But even those usually require
certain code-level interventions to work.
Your data + layout are quite simple and are a good candidate for
XSL-FO <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects>:
purpose-made to handle XML -> PDF outputs.
Alternately, transform your source XML data into Open Office-compliant
XML...
On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 9:57 AM Manuel Souto Pico
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Dear all,
I would need to convert XML to something that has a fixed page
layout ready to print, like ODT/OOXML or PDF.
I know OOXML is complex, but since the final document needs to be
printed and keep the same layout, probably HTML output is not good
for this (I guess!).
What I need at the moment is just a quick and dirty proof of
concept to show that this conversion is feasible and not too
difficult, to show it to decision makers (I'm not a XSLT developer
myself).
This is my input (sample):
https://pastebin.com/sU77P7Bv
And this would be my output:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IhjSfR_RHKZ_2HbMiepKP96aojyHofBc/view?usp=sharing
My first thought was to unzip the ODT model I have, look at the
content.xml inside and then try to transform my XML into that same
structure (as suggested here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38298174/directly-convert-a-single-xml-file-to-docx).
However, probably that's the hard way...
I'm doing some research, any tips or pointers or advice or
recommendation or examples here would be highly appreciated. Is
there any best practice to do this? or a ready-made solution?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers, Manuel
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