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- <p>
- Through its many <em>Serializers</em>, Cocoon can transform
- XML data into many output formats, including, but not limited to:
- <ul>
- <li>XML (obviously)</li>
- <li>HTML</li>
- <li>PDF</li>
- <li>RTF</li>
- <li>HSSF (Excel's Horrible SpreadSheet Format)</li>
- <li>WAP/WML</li>
- <li>SVG</li>
- <li>PNG, JPEG</li>
- <li>OpenOffice Write, Draw and Calc formats</li>
- <li>ZIP archives</li>
- <li>MIDI files</li>
- <li>Flash animations</li>
- <li>Plain text</li>
- <li>VRML</li>
- </ul>
- </p>
- <p>
- We say <em>not limited to</em>, because we might have forgotten
- to list some,
- but also because it is fairly easy for a Java programmer to implement
- any output format by writing a new <em>Serializer</em> or extending
- an existing one.
- </p>
- <p>
- The <em>Hello world</em> samples of Cocoon give simple examples
- of how these formats are generated.
- </p>
- <p>
- Our simple example will let you input some text and create
- a PDF document out of it, using the PDFSerializer based on
- the Apache FOP project.
- </p>
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- </page>
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