The HTMLDocument class enables you to use existing IBM® Toolbox
for Java™ HTML classes to create either HTML pages
or Portable Document Format (PDF) documents.
When you create an HTMLDocument, you specify whether it
contains HTML tags or Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Formatting
Object (FOs) tags:
- When you want to create HTML pages, the HTMLDocument class offers
you an easier way to group all the required HTML tags. However, HTML
pages do not always look the same when you print them as when you
view them in a Web browser.
- When you want to create PDF documents, the HTMLDocument class
offers you the ability to create XSL FO source that contains all the
information you need to produce a PDF document. PDF documents retain
the same graphical appearance when you print them as when you view
them electronically.
To use HTMLDocument, you need to include an XML parser
and an XSLT processor in your CLASSPATH environment variable. For
more information, see the following pages:
You can process the resulting HTML or XSL source data
the way you want, for example, by displaying the HTML, saving the
XSL to a file, or using the streamed data in another part of your Java program.
For more information about
creating HTML pages and XSL FO source data, see the following pages: