XML to PDF best approach?

Question

I have some xml files which are used to generate my webpages, however I need to be able to allow the user to select a number of pages then combine them into one PDF. This pdf needs to have different styling to the actual web page.(the content is kept in xml files ;)

p.s. the pdf must have table of contents... and will include images taken from the website.

Answer 1

You would use a library like iText or iTextSharp to build a PDF using your content.

Answer 2

Write an XSLT stylesheet which transforms your XML files to XSL-FO and then use an XSL-FO implementation (e.g. Apache FOP) to produce PDF.

Answer 3

I use Prince in my product. It's not cheap (neither is my product), but it's extremely easy to use, and very fast.