Convert XML to PDF using XSL

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I have a java spring boot project with several modules.
In one of the modules I have to convert an XML to a PDF using a XLS. In the XLS I want to use an external css and image file.
I am able to convert the XML and I have the PDF as output but with no images and css/styling.
Into this module I provide the XLS as a resource:

@Value(“classpath:archiving/archiving.xsl”)
private Resource archivingXsl;

Then I convert in this way:

String xmlContent = "xml file content";
InputStream targetStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlContent.getBytes());
TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer(new StreamSource(archivingXsl.getInputStream()));
StreamSource xmlSource = new StreamSource(targetStream);
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
StreamResult output = new StreamResult(baos);
transformer.transform(xmlSource, output);
HtmlLoadOptions options = new HtmlLoadOptions();
ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(baos.toByteArray());
Document pdfDocument = new Document(bais, options);
pdfDocument.save("data_xml.pdf");

The xsl file includes the css file like the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="archiving.css"/>
        <html>
            <body>
                <center>
                    <img src="logo.jpg"></img>
                </center>
                <h3 class="blue">title</h3>
                <br></br>

Can you please help me to understand how to have the css and image files included in the pdf?
Thank you

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@gps.it

Could you please share the sample XML and referenced CSS file for our reference so that we can further test the scenario in our environment and address it accordingly?

3

Thanks for your reply.
Hereby the 3 files:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1X9CMDs5OYQ2DoA-nJuqyKuuU1PKTamG-?usp=sharing

Let me know if you need something else.

Thanks for your help.

4

@gps.it

We tested the scenario in our environment. We changed the CSS file path in XSL file to make it complete and tried another way, but did not get success:

Document pdf = new Document();

pdf.bindXml(dataDir + "xmlContent.xml", dataDir + "archiving.xsl");
pdf.Save(dataDir + "SampleOut.pdf");

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