Can I use XSL Formatting Objects with PHP

[staleylayne]

Hi there,

right before I go on learning something about xsl Formatting Objects I would like to know whether or not it is possible to use them in a php-script?
Until now I just found the possibility of processing xml documents using the php-function 'XsltProcessor()'.., which is quite helpful for me. But since I worry that CSS won't fulfill my needs, I thought of xsl-fo.

The php-script shall be called from within a browser. The script will contain the instruction to output the data of a certain xml file using the rules of a certain xsl stylesheet (?in combination?) with Formatting Objects.
Thanks a lot for any responses,
Layne

 

[Stretchwickster]

There is an open source implementation of XSL-FO called Apache FOP:

http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/

There is a PHP PEAR package which implements XSL-FO using Apache FOP but I haven't personally tried it:

http://pear.php.net/package/XML_fo2pdf

Let us know how you get on.

Clive

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