Re: XML to RTF transformation via XSL

FROM : Andrew Farmer
DATE : Sat Mar 22 12:50:50 2008

On 22 Mar 08, at 01:46, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I'd like to have my XML file read by my app, and save the file, or 
> display it in a NSTextView, as RTF (with the appropriate formatting 
> etc).
>
> So I have been trying to use:
>
> - (id)objectByApplyingXSLTAtURL:(NSURL *)xsltURL arguments:
> (NSDictionary *)argumentserror:(NSError **)error
>
> Which is happily giving me the HTML document that would be expected.

<...>
> And these things either give an error in the console, or at best 
> just give HTML. Also, I can't see how any of these settings (except 
> the target properties) would give me RTF (rather than plain text).
>
> Am I barking up the wrong tree here? I was expecting RTF output with 
> bigger bolder text corresponding to <h2> etc.


Reading the documentation, there doesn't appear to be any magic HTML-
>RTF pixie dust in objectByApplyingXSLTAtURL. To get RTF output, 

you'll probably need to write a stylesheet that generates RTF data 
instead of HTML.