The
HTMLDocument class enables you to more easily 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:
Jar files
XML parser and XSLT processor
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: