-none- 2007-08-23 - By Paulo Soares
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HTMLWorker may be better suited for that.
Paulo
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From: "Thierry Clement" <Thierry.Clement@(protected)>
To: <itext-questions@(protected)>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 4:22 PM
Subject: [iText-questions] use of spans or other englobing HTML tags and
associate with styles with class HtmlParser
Hello,
I am an enthousiastic user of iText for generating PDFs from dynamic data,
e.g. for websites.
I am currently working at Cetim (France), and I have used iText with
success for small Intranet applications. Now, I am planning to use it for
our Internet site, and I am faced with a little technical problem :
- the content of the site is using dynamic data (MySql DB) , that I can
easily convert to XML streams (or files)
- some of the fields of the corresponding tables have values of type
"text" where HTML code is stored. It contains basix tags, such as <p>,
<a>, <i>, <b>, <ul>, <li>... (but no font or style specs)
- I want to produce PDFs presenting approximatively the same "formatting"
as given by the HTML code of these fields
Globally, I could successfully implement this process using function
HtmlParser.parse() of your library (v. 2.04) : for setting font sizes or
text colors, I transformed via XSLT my incoming raw XML data to a full
(dynamic) XHTML file, adding code like <span style="font-size:10px;
color:green;"> or <div style=...> before the HTML code of a certain field,
ending that tag after the "inner" HTML code of the field ( thus englobing
it with a specific style) . But, in the case where the inner code contains
other tags such as <a> or <li>, the resulting PDF file does not "span" the
style all over the HTML inner code but only up to the first "inner" HTML
tag
Here is an example of a portion of code for the XHML file that I send as
an input to HtmlParser.parse() :
<html>
<body>
<div style="font-size:10px; color:green;">At the end of the session,
participants may :
<ul>
<li>option1</li>
<li>option2</li>
<li>option3</li>
</ul>
</div>
</body>
</html>
>From this, I obtain the resulting PDF file which is attached to this mail,
where the list options do not appear in green as I think they should...
Can you give me advice or other ideas or solutions for this problem ?
Thanking you in advance,
Yours sincerily
Thierry Cl?ment
CETIM
France
PS : I am not sure if I should subscribe to the mailing-list for such
questions - please let me know.
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