Creating PDF from XML using XSLT

The following code snippet also work with Aspose.PDF.Drawing library.

Sometimes you may have existing XML files that contain application data and you want to generate PDF report using these files. You can use XSLT to transform your existing XML document to Aspose.Pdf’s compatible XML document and then generate PDF file. There are 3 steps to generate PDF using XML and XSLT.

Please follow these steps to convert an XML file into a PDF document using XSLT:

Create an instance of PDF class that represents a PDF document
If you have purchased a license then you should also embed the code to use that license with the help of License class in Aspose.Pdf namespace
Bind the input XML and XSLT files to the instance of PDF class by calling its BindXML method
Save the bound XML with PDF instance as a PDF document

Input XML File

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Contents>
  <Content>Hello World!</Content>
</Contents>

Input XSLT File

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:template match="text()"/>
    <xsl:template match="/Contents">
    <html>
      <Document xmlns="Aspose.Pdf" IsAutoHyphenated="false">
        <PageInfo>
          <DefaultTextState
                            Font = "Helvetica" FontSize="8" LineSpacing="4"/>
          <Margin Left="5cm" Right="5cm" Top="3cm" Bottom="15cm" />
        </PageInfo>
        <Page id="mainSection">
          <TextFragment>
            <TextSegment>
              <xsl:value-of select="Content"/>
            </TextSegment>
          </TextFragment>
        </Page>
      </Document>
    </html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

.NET Core 3.1

// For complete examples and data files, visit https://github.com/aspose-pdf/Aspose.PDF-for-.NET
private static void CreateDocument()
{
    // The path to the documents directory
    var dataDir = RunExamples.GetDataDir_AsposePdf_WorkingDocument();

    //Create pdf document
    using (var document = new Aspose.Pdf.Document())
    {
        //Bind XML and XSLT files to the document
        document.BindXml(dataDir + "HelloWorld.xml", dataDir + "HelloWorld.xslt");

        // Save PDF document
        document.Save(dataDir + "HelloWorldUsingXmlAndXslt.pdf");
    }
}

.NET 8

// For complete examples and data files, visit https://github.com/aspose-pdf/Aspose.PDF-for-.NET
private static void CreateDocument()
{
    // The path to the documents directory
    var dataDir = RunExamples.GetDataDir_AsposePdf_WorkingDocument();

    //Create pdf document
    using var document = new Aspose.Pdf.Document();

    //Bind XML and XSLT files to the document
    document.BindXml(dataDir + "HelloWorld.xml", dataDir + "HelloWorld.xslt");

    // Save PDF document
    document.Save(dataDir + "HelloWorldUsingXmlAndXslt.pdf");
}