David,

Thanks for your help - I will look into nfop from sourceforge.

I'm looking to incorporate it into a desktop application anyway - so
calling it from the console should be fine as I can do it all behind
the scenes so that the user doesn't see what's going on.

cheers
James

--- David Preuss <d.preuss@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi James,
> 
> There is something in the sourceforge projects called nfop. I used it
> for a
> time and it was ok.
> 
> Justr search for nfop in sourceforge and you will get it. Now i also
> use fop
> in c# but call it from the console because i dont have to render my
> pdfs
> that often on the fly (20 per month i guess) so the approach is ok.
> Anyway I
> would not recommend this approach for a highly active environment,
> although
> it is stable (but not performant).
> 
> Hope that helped a little bit.
> 
> David
> 
> -----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: James Murphy [mailto:jamesmurphy_98@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 19. Juni 2005 14:55
> An: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Betreff:  FOP for MS .NET?
> 
> Hi,
>  
> I'm new to the community and a part-time student.  I am trying to do
> a
> project that involves generating XML files, then transforming the XML
> files
> into various formats.
> 
> The formats that I am looking to transform the XML into include HTML
> and
> PDF.
> 
> I have read that there is a Java tool (under the apache project)
> called, FOP
> that will read an FO tree and transform it into a print format
> document.
> 
> I am looking to develop my software using MS Visual Studio .NET in
> C#. 
> 
> So my questions are:
> 
> 1) Is there a version of FOP tool for .NET/C#?
> 2) Are there any other tools out there that are free to use (perhaps
> even in
> a commercial capacity) to transform XML into other file formats?
> 3) Has anyone got any good tutorials or websites that would help me
> in my
> quest to get an understanding of XSL, XSLT, FO etc so that I can
> complete my
> project (as outlined above)?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> James
> 
> 
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