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 ) -- Burhan Khalid phplist[at]meidomus[dot]com