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From: "Burhan Khalid" <phplist@meidomus.com>
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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 19:33:22 +0300
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Subject: RE: [PHP] Document generation from XML

Russell Seymour wrote:
> Ray,
> 
> I can create the XML of the document that I want to generate using
> the built in XML functions in PHP. 
> 
> THe thing I then want to do is be able to do is then use that XML to
> create documents in multiple formats, e.g. PDF. 
> 
> I think that I can use DocBook or Apache FO to do this, but I am not
> sure which one to use or how to go about doing it. 
> 
> Basically I want to be abel to speciy an output format and run the
> XML through a transformation to get that format. 
> 
> Does that make any more sense?

Yes, actually.

There is a great tutorial[1] over at IBM's DeveroperWorks that talks about
this.  They call it the Toot-O-Matic, and it is a Java application that uses
an XML document to create PDF, ZIP, HTML, and even JPEG files to
auto-generate tutorials.

[ trimmed ]

[1] http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-toot/index.html

( there are several links to toot-o-matic, but that should get you started )

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Burhan Khalid
phplist[at]meidomus[dot]com

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