[seam-dev] Exporting datatables

[Nicklas Karlsson]

Hi,

While looking for css parsing for the excel-export of datatables, I
recalled running into https://xhtmlrenderer.dev.java.net/ before. What
it essentially
does is parses xhtml and converts it to pdf/image/svg, taking
stylesheets etc into account.

Does anyone here have any insight on if it would be possible in JSF
to, given a component id, dig it out, render it to a temporary
document, strip
out the other components from the body with exception of the component
to export and its parents (preserving stylesheet info), make sure it's
xhtml compliant
(through TagSoup or some other library), convert it to the target
format (through the xhtmlrenderer) and hanging the result on the
DocumentStore?

It could be handy to make in-application screenshots (targetting the
root) to pdf/image or just to target a component (datatable) to
export(?)

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Nik