• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Stylus Studio®
• Chapter 2: Editing and Querying XML
• Chapter 3: Converting Non-XML Files to XML
• Chapter 4: Working with XSLT
  • Getting Started with XSLT
  • Tutorial: Understanding How Templates Work
  • Working with Stylesheets
  • Creating Stylesheets That Generate HTML
  • Specifying Extension Functions in Stylesheets
  • Working with Templates
  • Using Third-Party XSLT Processors
  • Validating Result Documents
  • Post-processing Result Documents
  • Generating Formatting Objects
    • Developing Stylesheets That Generate FO
    • Troubleshooting FOP Errors
    • Viewing the FO Sample Application
    • Deploying Stylesheets That Generate FO
    • Using Apache FOP to Generate NonPDF Output
  • Generating Scalable Vector Graphics
  • Generating Java Code for XSLT
  • XSLT Instructions Quick Reference
• Chapter 5: Creating XSLT Using the XSLT Mapper
• Chapter 6: Debugging Stylesheets
• Chapter 7: Defining XML Schemas
• Chapter 8: Defining Document Type Definitions
• Chapter 9: Writing XPath Expressions
• Chapter 10: Working with XQuery in Stylus Studio
• Chapter 11: Composing Web Service Calls
• Chapter 12: Accessing Relational Data as XML
• Chapter 13: Integrating with Third-Party File Systems
• Chapter 14: Extending Stylus Studio
• Chapter 15: The Stylus Studio Java API
• Chapter 16: Stylus Studio GUI Reference

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Viewing the FO Sample Application

To view the FO sample application included with Stylus Studio:

Alternative: If the Stylus Studio examples project is open, you can access this file from the Project window. To open the examples project, open examples.prj in the Stylus Studio examples directory.

The video scenario has already been defined. In the Post-process tab of the Scenario Properties dialog box, Postprocess with Apache FOP is selected.

In this scenario, Stylus Studio selects elements to operate on from three different documents. These documents are in the examples directory of the Stylus Studio installation directory. They are also in the examples project. The documents are:

2. Click Preview Result . As you can see, the Output Window shows some post-processing information messages.

Figure 225. Example of XSLT FO Processing

After a few seconds, the Preview window displays the PDF result in Acrobat Reader. The result contains a few lines of text for each video and book found in the XML source documents. The title, author or director, and the description is included for each item. It is hard to see where information for one item ends and another begins.

5. Click Preview Result .

Figure 226. Another Example of XSLT FO Processing

This time the PDF result in the Preview window is nicely formatted. The catalog.xsl stylesheet adds some basic formatting, as well as images, to the minimal-catalog.xsl stylesheet. Now it is easy to distinguish the title, author or director, and description for each video or book.