Re: How to convert XML files to the XSL-FO format

Sachin A. wrote:
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> I would like to convert XML file to XSL-FO format
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> Kindly suggest tool and price for personal use if such product available with you.

You don't need to purchase anything from us or from any other vendor. 
You just need to use an XSLT engine for that.

Recommended free-to-use XSLT engine: Saxon-HE 9.8: 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/saxon/files/

However, if you choose this path, you'll have to learn both XSLT and 
XSL-FO in order to develop an XSLT stylesheet which converts your XML to 
XSL-FO.

XSLT 2.0 reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/

XSL-FO 1.0 reference: https://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/



If you are curious, you'll find below a sample --very simple-- XSLT 
stylesheet that generates XSL-FO:

http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/_distrib/doc/user/samples/data/countries.xsl

This sample XSLT stylesheet can be used to convert this kind of sample 
XML file to XSL-FO:

http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/_distrib/doc/user/samples/data/countries.xml




Note that some vendors offer commercial graphical tools which aim to 
relieve you from developing such XSLT stylesheets. We have never 
evaluated such tools:

Ecrion XF Designer: http://www.ecrion.com/xfdesigner/

RendexX Visual-XSL: http://www.renderx.com/tools/visualxsl.html




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PS: Once you'll have some XSL-FO ready, you'll need an XSL-FO Processor 
to convert this intermediate format to a useful formal like PDF, DOCX, etc.

Some of the available XSL-FO Processors:

(Free, open-source) Apache FOP: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/

(Commercial) RenderX XEP: http://www.renderx.com/tools/xep.html

(Commercial) Antenna House XSL Formatter: 
https://www.antennahouse.com/antenna1/formatter/

(Commercial) XMLmind XSL-FO Converter: http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/


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