RE: XML + XSLT = SVG using FOP example needed...

hmmmm....

I could not even get a box with fill:none to render with FOP just a day or two
ago (it renders with the adobe plugin). It seems SVG in FOP has a ways to go. I
am kind of glad they are focusing on other stuff. Flash (though I have grown to
hate it...) is much better and is here today. Yes it is owned by MACR, but the
file format is open like PDF.

Have you seen http://www.saxess.com/wave/
It uses XSL and XML (and java) to generate a shockwave flash file.

Does anybody know of an Open Source effort like this? (that uses XSL)

I have written some Flash riding on XML. The flash interface cramps up my hands
from all the clicking. I would welcome a way to transform to a SWF.

best,
-Rob



> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Wendell Piez
> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 3:57 PM
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> Subject: RE:  XML + XSLT = SVG using FOP example needed...
>
>
> SVG is merely one of several output formats that FOP supports. The idea is
> basically that you fire up your SVG viewer and see a rendering of the page,
> using, in effect, XSL-FO as an SVG "driver" format. (It did seem like a
> somewhat bizarre thing to do, but hey, SVG is cool so why not?)
>
> But Tom, when I tried this oh many months ago, it didn't work very well:
> the SVG came out but the rendering was poor. (I just did it configuring FOP
> from the command line.) So I'm afraid that's not much help since hopefully
> the implementation has improved since then, and no I have no example. (In
> any case I'd start by trying to get it to work from the command line --
> which was easy enough -- before I set up a whole system.)
>
> This, I take it, is quite different from just using SVG as a graphics
> format to be referred to by XSL-FO to create another form of output such as
> PDF. (I had somewhat better success with that but it was also a while ago.)
> FOP "renders SVG" in the sense that you can pass SVG as part of your FO,
> and FOP will render it; but it will also render its FO content *in* SVG,
> and that's what I think you (Tom) are asking about.
>
> Cheers,
> Wendell
>
> At 06:10 PM 8/26/2002, Rob wrote:
> >Hey,
> >
> >I did not even know you could render SVG with FOP. I am new to SVG too
> >(just got
> >my O'Reilly's SVG book 3 days ago :).
> >
> >But, I don't understand why you would need to render. I thought SVG was
> >just XML
> >that is displayed through some viewer. What do you get when you render it?
>
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