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Marco Wayop

Subject: How to apply style to <bold> tags
Author: Marco Wayop
Date: 18 Apr 2007 06:44 AM
Originally Posted: 18 Apr 2007 06:36 AM

Hi,

I would like to apply style like bold, italic, etc using XSLT and XSL-FO
Normally this is simple, but I have the following challenge:

This is a fragment of my XML code:

<ClientNote>
<remark>
test: <bold>this should be bold</bold> and this shouldn't be
</remark>
</ClientNote>

In my XSLT I use this template to apply to XML <bold> nodes

<xsl:template match="bold">
<fo:inline font-weight="bold">
<xsl:apply-templates />
</fo:inline>
</xsl:template>

The <bold> are not real XML tags so I have no idea to apply style like I am used to.

I've tried a lot of variations but I can't seem to find a solution.

Any idea's here?

Thanks,

Marco

Ivan Pedruzzi

Subject: How to apply style to tags
Author: Ivan Pedruzzi
Date: 18 Apr 2007 10:25 PM

Marco,

What you have inside the element "remarks" is *not* XML but plain text, XSLT will not be able to process it.

Do you have any control on the input XML?

Ivan Pedruzzi
Stylus Studio Team
http://www.stylusstudio.com/xml_download.html

Marco Wayop

Subject: How to apply style to tags
Author: Marco Wayop
Date: 19 Apr 2007 05:35 AM
Originally Posted: 19 Apr 2007 05:34 AM

Hi Ivan,

Thanks for replying,

> Do you have any control on the input XML?
Yes, but I use JDOM and it doesn't handle mixed content like <text>this <bold>word</bold> ...</text> in a convenient way.

I hoped there was a convenient XSLT method to accomplish this.
There should be ways of creating XML nodes dynamically?

(Deleted User)

Subject: How to apply style to tags
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 23 Apr 2007 12:44 PM

Hi Marco,
trying to manipulate that string from within XSLT is going to be hard (even if XSLT 2.0 has some string processing built-in functions); it would be better if you generated a standard XML file, maybe replacing JDOM with another DOM-based technology that suits better your data structure.

Alberto

Marco Wayop

Subject: How to apply style to tags
Author: Marco Wayop
Date: 24 Apr 2007 03:57 AM

Hi Alberto,

Thanks for your answer.

Dynamicaly generating the XML nodes seemed a little discursive.
Fortunately I managed to find a temporary work around in JDOM.

I now just simply:
- write the document to a string
- replace the <style> </style> tags (only when they are in balance)
- reparse the document to contain mixed content.

It takes a little more cpu power and I will certainly try to find a better solution when I have some time.

Thanks,
Marco

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