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shibashis duttaSubject: Convernting CSS + xsl to XSL:FO
Author: shibashis dutta
Date: 26 Jun 2008 09:18 AM
Hello

I am new to xsl:fo. and faced a problem.

i have an xsl which has css in it, and also i have a dataXML, that i hash with the xsl, to get the HTML.

but i want to generate PDF from that xsl. but not sure how to convert the xsl+css to xsl:fo, through java program.

please let me know of any way for this.

and please help me to understand, is there way in XSL:FO similar to CSS. so that we keep styling in common place and reuse it.


thanks
shib
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(Deleted User) Subject: Convernting CSS + xsl to XSL:FO
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 08 Jul 2008 06:13 AM
Hi Shib,
CSS and XSL-FO are very different, and you cannot simply map the old HTML+CSS into XSL-FO tags. CSS defines positioning for HTML elements (or class of elements), while HTML defines the general layout of the text. Instead, XSL-FO has a whole set of different tags to define the flow of the document, with attributes like font/color/size specified as additional tags inside the structural ones.
You will have to learn the XSL-FO language, for example by using the XML Publisher feature of Stylus Studio to design the desired layout and by generating the corresponding XSL-FO or HTML+CSS that renders it; by looking at the generated code you can learn how they differ.

Hope this helps,
Alberto
   
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