cmp.fop

The cmp.fop component is a Clojure wrapper for Apache FOP.

It fits nicely with the XSL-FO DSL in xml.dsl.

If you want to generate PDF documents from data in your application, the traditional way of achieving it with XSL-FO is

• convert your data to XML
• apply an XSL transformation to generate the XSL-FO output
• use a FO processor like Apache FOP with the generated XSL-FO to generate the PDF file

With the XSL-FO DSL there is no need to convert your data to XML and to apply a XSL transformation. Just use the generated Clojure functions to programm XSL-FO directly with the data in your program.

• use FO DSL functions and clojure control structures to generate XSL-FO directly from your data
• use Apache FOP with the generated XSL-FO to generate the PDF file via cmp.fop

It is a lot easier, faster and much less memory intensive, to drop XSL transformation step completely. You don't have to convert your data to XML and you don't have to write the transformation to XSL-FO in a foreign language (XSL). It's all done in the Clojure code of your application now.

Usage

Dependency

Example

Example call to generate a PDF document from a static XSL-FO document.

(ns example.fop-test
  (:require [org.soulspace.cmp.fop :as fop]))

(fop/fo-to-pdf "example/fo.xml" "target/test.pdf")

Copyright

© 2011-2023 Ludger Solbach

License

Eclipse Public License 1.0

Code Repository

CljComponents on GitHub