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See also XML to PDF example for VBScript (Visual
Basic) here
You can download the source code of this example (Visual C#)
here:
pdfdocscout_xml_xslt_transformation_example_csharp.zip
This example describes how to transform XML into PDF in Visual C# 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)
Code of Form1.cs
using
System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.XPath;
using System.Xml.Xsl;
namespace XMLtoPDFUsingPDFDocScout
{
public partial
class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private void
btnXMLToPDF_Click(object sender,
EventArgs e)
{
// Transform XML using XSLT and get
HTML code
// then create PDF document from produced
HTML code
PDFDocScout.PDFDocument PDFDoc = new
PDFDocScout.PDFDocument();
PDFDoc.InitLibrary ("demo", "demo");
PDFDoc.OutputFileName = "XML2HTML.pdf";
PDFDoc.AutoOpenGeneratedPDF = true;
PDFDoc.BeginDocument();
// load source XML document
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new
XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(boxXML.Text);
XslCompiledTransform xslt = new
XslCompiledTransform();
xslt.Load(boxXSLT.Text);
// create XML doc to store result of
transformation
XmlDocument objResultXML = new
XmlDocument();
//Transform the XML using XLST into
HTML (produced HTML is written to writer object)
StringWriter writer = new
StringWriter();
xslt.Transform(new XPathDocument(boxXML.Text),
null, writer);
writer.Close();
// convert produced HTML code into PDF
PDFDoc.Page.AddHTMLBox (writer.ToString(),
0,0, PDFDoc.Page.Width, PDFDoc.Page.Height,
true);
PDFDoc.EndDocument(); // close PDF document
generation
}
}
}
You can download the source code of this example (Visual
C#) here:
pdfdocscout_xml_xslt_transformation_example_csharp.zip
See also XML to PDF example for VBScript (Visual Basic) here
See also: Bytescout.PDF - native .NET library to write/read/sign/
modify/merge/split PDF documents (but no HTML2PDF support)
On-line documentation (HTML format)
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