A PRINTING SYSTEM

摘要

A printing system and method for printing XML files directly using a formatting template is disclosed. An embodiment of the printing system includes a spooler for receiving printable information from the print channe l, a print services facility for parsing an XML file, formatting the XML file according to a formatting template, the print services facility organizing a data stream representing the formatted XML file and generating a print steam having been formatted using the formatting template and a printer for printi ng the print steam according to the formatting defined by the formatting template, wherein the formatting template defines a data map format containi ng XML descriptors defining the formatting for an element of the XML file.