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Transforming XML using XSLT and PDFDoc Scout into PDF document using PDFDoc Scout library

How to convert XML into PDF using XSLT template transformation


See also: XML to PDF example for Visual C# here
XML to PDF example for VB.NET here

You can download the source code of this example (VBScript) here:
pdfdocscout_xml_xslt_transformation_example.zip

This example describes how to transform XML into PDF document using XSLT (.xsl) template using PDFDoc Scout library

Source XML data (simpsons.xml):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="Simpsons.xsl"?>
<Simpsons>
<FamilyMember>Homer Jay Simpson</FamilyMember>
<FamilyMember>Marjorie Marge Simpson (Bouvier)</FamilyMember>
<FamilyMember>Bartholomew Jojo Bart Simpson</FamilyMember>
<FamilyMember>Lisa Marie Simpson</FamilyMember>
<FamilyMember>Margaret Maggie Simpson</FamilyMember>
<ExtendedFamilyMember>Abraham Jay Simpson</ExtendedFamilyMember>
<ExtendedFamilyMember>Mona J. Simpson</ExtendedFamilyMember>
<ExtendedFamilyMember>Jacqueline Ingrid Bouvier</ExtendedFamilyMember>
<ExtendedFamilyMember>Clancy Bouvier</ExtendedFamilyMember>
<ExtendedFamilyMember>Patricia "Patty" Bouvier</ExtendedFamilyMember>
</Simpsons>

XSLT template (simpsons.xsl):

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="FamilyMember">
<p><b><u><xsl:value-of select="."/></u></b></p>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="ExtendedFamilyMember">
<p><i><xsl:value-of select="."/></i></p>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Produced PDF document (XML2HTML.pdf generated from source Simpsons.xml XML data)

PDF document produced from transformed XML simpsons.xml

Code to transform XML and convert into PDF using PDFDoc Scout lib:

<font color="black" face="Courier New" size="2"><font color="#008000">' Transform XML using XSLT and get HTML code</font><br>
<font color="#008000">' then create PDF document from produced HTML code</font><br>
<br>
<font color="#0000ff">Set</font> PDFDoc = CreateObject(<font color="#a31515">"PDFDocScout.PDFDocument"</font>)<br>
<br>
PDFDoc.InitLibrary <font color="#a31515">"demo"</font>, <font color="#a31515">"demo"</font><br>
PDFDoc.OutputFilename = <font color="#a31515">"XML2HTML.pdf"</font><br>
PDFDoc.AutoOpenGeneratedPDF = <font color="#0000ff">true</font><br>
<br>
PDFDoc.BeginDocument<br>
<br>
<font color="#008000">' load source XML document</font><br>
<font color="#0000ff">Set</font> xmlDocument = CreateObject(<font color="#a31515">"Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0"</font>)<br>
xmlDocument.async = <font color="#0000ff">false</font><br>
xmlDocument.load(<font color="#a31515">"Simpsons.xml"</font>)<br>
<br>
<font color="#008000">' load XSLT template</font><br>
<font color="#0000ff">Set</font> xslDocument = CreateObject(<font color="#a31515">"Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0"</font>)<br>
xslDocument.async = <font color="#0000ff">false</font><br>
xslDocument.load(<font color="#a31515">"Simpsons.xsl"</font>)<br>
<br>
<font color="#008000">' create XML doc to store result of transformation</font><br>
<font color="#0000ff">Set</font> objResultXML = CreateObject(<font color="#a31515">"Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0"</font>)<br>
objResultXML.async = <font color="#0000ff">false</font><br>
objResultXML.validateOnParse = <font color="#0000ff">true</font><br>
<br>
<font color="#008000">' transform XML using XSLT into objResultXML document</font><br>
xmlDocument.transformNodeToObject xslDocument, objResultXML<br>
<br>
<font color="#008000">' convert produced HTML code from objResultXML document into PDF</font><br>
PDFDoc.Page.AddHTMLBox objResultXML.xml, 0,0, PDFDoc.Page.Width, PDFDoc.Page.Height, <font color="#0000ff">true</font><br>
<br>
PDFDoc.EndDocument <font color="#008000">' close PDF document generation</font><br>
<br>
<font color="#008000">' disconnect from library</font><br>
<font color="#0000ff">Set</font> PDFDoc = Nothing</font>

You can download the source code of this example (VBScript) here:
pdfdocscout_xml_xslt_transformation_example.zip

See examples for other languages:
XML to PDF example for Visual C# here
XML to PDF example for VB.NET here
Filed in: PDFDoc Scout SDK

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