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Re: FOP - what, where, when, how?
- From: Joerg Heinicke <joerg dot heinicke at gmx dot de>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:29:10 +0100
- Subject: Re: [xsl] FOP - what, where, when, how?
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Alastair Growcott wrote:
> I'm looking at converting XML documents via XSL to PDF. I have looked in
> the archives, etc. and I see a lot of references to something called FOP
> by James Tauber. I even saw an article by someone which gave an example
> of using it (which admittedly was not working), that looked similar to
> what I am doing.
>
> Firstly, the namespace reference I saw mentioned;
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl/FO
> seems to be a broken link.
As you can see, it's the link from the Working Draft. The new one:
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format. You can find the XSL FO specification
at http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/.
> Secondly, I don't have Java on my machine. XT
> comes as a nice Win32 executable. Does FOP?
Now, FOP is Java: http://xml.apache.org/fop.
> Even while writing this post I have found out that FO is part of XSL,
Only for avoiding naming conflicts:
XSLT + XSL FO = XSL
> but still lack much information that I will be studying up on. I am also
> unsure about the nature of PDF and licensing issues, and what the
> difference is between the FOP output and the stuff that Adobe's Acrobat
> writer program produces.
>
> I currently am successfully converting the XML to HTML via XSL such that
> when I double click on the XML file, IE6 automatically runs and displays
> the XML as HTML. Can I do this when converting into PDF? I.e. if I
> double click on the XML it will automatically be displayed by Adobe
> Acrobat reader?
No and never. XSL FO, to which you can transform via XSLT, and PDF is
not the same. You still need a renderer. Maybe there will be a
PDF-renderer-engine-plugin anytime. But until that date definitively not.
Regards,
Joerg
> Here is a sample of how I am doing my HTML conversion. Is it possible
> someone could edit it to work with FOP, and post it back?
>
> sample.xml
> ----------
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="sample.xsl"?>
> <mydoc>
> <question>Are you there?</question>
> <answer>Maybe!</answer>
> </mydoc>
>
> sample.xsl
> ----------
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <html xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> xsl:version="1.0">
> <head><title>Question and answer session</title></head>
>
> <body>
> <b>Question: </b><xsl:value-of select="/mydoc/question"/><br/>
> <b>Answer: </b><i><xsl:value-of select="/mydoc/question"/></i><br/>
> </body></html>
>
> Many thanks for any assistance.
>
> Alastair.
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