Method (parseToElementList(str,null)) not found in XMLWorkerHelper class for Itext

Question

I am new in iText, I want to convert HTML string to Pdf in Itext. I found lots of example on the Internet. Then I found one example and want to implement same here, but not able to implement the example in my project. I added dependencies in my pom.XML file .

Here is the link :

https://developers.itextpdf.com/examples/xml-worker-itext5/basic-html-examples

Pom.xml

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.itextpdf/itextpdf -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
        <artifactId>itextpdf</artifactId>
        <version>5.0.6</version>
    </dependency>
**<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.itextpdf.tool/xmlworker -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.itextpdf.tool</groupId>
    <artifactId>xmlworker</artifactId>
    <version>5.4.1</version>
</dependency>**

Code snippet:

                PdfPTable table = new PdfPTable(1);
                PdfPCell cell = new PdfPCell();
                ElementList list =XMLWorkerHelper.parseToElementList(encountersoapnotes.getHpi(), null);
                for (Element element : list) {
                    cell.addElement(element);
                }
                table.addCell(cell);
                document.add(table);

The above parseToElementList(str,null) method is not available after installing maven command.

Anyone give me the maven dependency for this XMLWorkerHelper class which contains parseToElementList(str,null) method.

Thanks Sitansu

Answer 1

If you are new to iText, then you should not start with such an old version. You should start with the current version: iText 7.1.1 + pdfHTML 2.0.1. With that version, you need as little code as this:

public static void main() throws IOException {
   // IO File htmlSource = new File("input.html");
   File pdfDest = new File("output.pdf");
   // pdfHTML specific code
   ConverterProperties converterProperties = new ConverterProperties();
   HtmlConverter.convertToPdf(new FileInputStream(htmlSource), new FileOutputStream(pdfDest), converterProperties);
}

More information, tutorials, downloads etc at https://itextpdf.com/itext7/pdfHTML