On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 03:48 PM, Chris Boget wrote:
> I need to take what is presented to the user (ie, the data less the > HTML tags but maintaining the formatting) and turn it into a PDF > file. > > I know I can use PDFLib to turn data into a PDF. However, it > doesn't understand HTML so I can't just send it the same thing > I'm sending to the browser via stdout. Is there a routine, a class > or a set of functions out there that would take the result and give > me just the data the end user sees (ie, less the HTML tags)? Or > even turn the HTML into XML? > One thing to remember, since this is using the results of a parsed > template, I would need to be able to do all of this on the fly. > > I don't necessarily need the code that does this, just pointers on > where I can go look and find out how I can do this. > Thanks for any help you can provide! Hm. If you can't store the data as XML from the beginning (doesn't it make more sense to go from XML to HTML than vice versa?), you might still be able to get away with using XSLT to do what you want. I think in order for it to work your initial document has to be some kind of XML, but XHTML should work in theory. What I just said came out somewhat confusing -- If your initial document is in XHTML form, you should be able to use XSLT, since XHTML is a form of XML. HTH, Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
