Converts a file in XSL-FO a PDF, XML, PCL o PS format.

1 fop.transform

<fop.transform
    type='pdf|xml|pcl|ps'
    encoding='encoding'
/>

Attributes
Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
Atype	string			pdf	Type of result to generate. By default, the result is returned in PDF format. You can also obtain the XML data or the code in PCL or PostScript to later send it to a print which interpret the language.
Aencoding	string				Indicate the codification of the string of characters to process, as for example ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8. If not specified, the one defined in the configuration file for the server is used.

Returns
Type	Description
File	Returns a temporary file with the converted file.

Example

Generation of a file using a XSQL-Script and generation of the corresponding PDF, using the fop.transform tag.

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<xsql-script name='fop_transform'>
    <body>
        <file.writer.open id='out1' encoding='ISO-8859-1'>
             <file name='fo_factura'/>
        </file.writer.open>
        <file.writer.println id='out1'><fo.xml />
        <fo.root>
           <fo.layout-master-set>
               <fo.simple-page-master master-name='HELLO' page-width='21.0cm' page-height='29.7cm' margin-top='0.5cm' margin-bottom='0.5cm' margin-left='0.5cm' margin-right='0.5cm'>
                   <fo.region-body margin-bottom='0.5cm' margin-top='1.5cm' />
                   <fo.region-before extent='1.5cm' precedence='true' />
                   <fo.region-after extent='0.5cm' />
               </fo.simple-page-master>
           </fo.layout-master-set>
            <!-- BEGIN PAGE SEQUENCE -->
            <fo.page-sequence force-page-count='no-force' master-reference='HELLO' initial-page-number='1'>
                <fo.flow flow-name='xsl-region-body'>
            
                       <fo.block text-align='left'>Hello world!</fo.block>
            
                </fo.flow>
            </fo.page-sequence>
        </fo.root></file.writer.println>  
       <file.writer.close id='out1' /> 
       <return>
       <file.bytes.write>
          <file name='fo_invoice.pdf' type='absolute'/>
          <file.bytes.read>
            <!-- ================================================================ -->
            <!-- HERE THE FO FILE generated by the SCRIPT IS CONVERTED TO PDF     -->
            <!--                                                                  -->
            <!-- ================================================================ -->                
            <fop.transform type='pdf'>
                <file name='fo_factura' />
            </fop.transform>
          </file.bytes.read>
        </file.bytes.write>
      </return>
    </body>
  </xsql-script>