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Subject: RE: displaying xslt using xsl:fo
From: "Andrew Welch" <awelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:27:11 -0000
xsl fo book template
bryan:
><fo:inline>&lt;</fo:inline><xsl:value-of select="name()"/>

really..? I started down this route, using code like:

  <fo:block>
    <xsl:text>&lt;</xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
    <xsl:text>&gt;</xsl:text>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
    <xsl:text>&lt;/</xsl:text>
    <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
    <xsl:text>&gt;</xsl:text>
  </fo:block>

and it felt like I was suffering the fate of many newbies and heading in
the wrong direction!

To avoid writing rules for each of the xslt elements, Ive just tried
using this:

  <fo:block>
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;![CDATA[</xsl:text>
    <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">]]&gt;</xsl:text>
  </fo:block>

..which gets the templates through to the output, but the presentational
whitespace seems to be ignored (the code is just one lump)

I tried using white-space-treatment="preserve", but fop tells me it
doesn't implement this yet.  Are any of the other fo processors capable
of this?    

thanks for help
andrew




> -----Original Message-----
> From: bryan [mailto:bry@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 14 November 2002 15:36
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  displaying xslt using xsl:fo
> 
> 
> 
> >Has anyone written a xsl:fo stylesheet to display xslt (or 
> any kind of
> >markup)?
> 
> >Its appears that fop is treating all the xslt and html mark up as
> >instructions, almost as if it isnt namespace aware...  I've only
> started
> >on xsl:fo today (with the help Dave P's online book, cheers dave!) so
> >any gentle looseners are appreciated.
> 
> Well you'd need to have a generic markup handler in the same way you
> would need it if you wanted to display markup in your html.
> 
> At that point I guess it just becomes a question as to how do 
> I want to
> display markup when printing to a pdf, i.e a logic of presentation
> question. Are there any parts of xslt markup that should be presented
> differently than other parts. Probably you would want to have two
> different types of block containers for 
> xsl:template[@match] and xsl:template[@name]
> then everything below that in the xsl namespace gets 
> individual blocks,
> everything not in the xsl namespace goes into one block with escaped
> markup.
> 
> <xsl:template match="foo">
> <bar/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> gets analyzed, without presentation properties of attributes, in this
> way
> 
> <xsl:template match="xsl:template[@match]">
> <fo:block-container><fo:block><xsl:call-template name="tagmatcher1"/>
> </fo:block>
> <xsl:apply-templates mode="genericmarkup"/>
> <fo:block><xsl:call-template name="tagender1"/> </fo:block>
> </fo:block-container>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template name="tagmatcher1">
> <fo:inline>&lt;</fo:inline><xsl:value-of select="name()"/> 
> <xsl:for-each
> select="@*"><fo:inline><xsl:value-of
> select="name()"/></fo:inline>="<xsl:value-of
> select="."/>"</xsl:for-each><fo:inline>&gt;</fo:inline>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template name="tagender1">
> <fo:inline>&lt;/</fo:inline><xsl:value-of
> select="name()"/><fo:inline>&gt;</fo:inline>
> 
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="*" mode="genericmarkup">
> <fo:block><xsl:call-template name="tagmatcher1"/> </fo:block>
> <xsl:apply-templates mode="genericmarkup"/>
> <fo:block><xsl:call-template name="tagender1"/> </fo:block>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> which would give you something like this(supposing I haven't made any
> semantic mistakes above nor any keyboard entry errors below)
> 
> <fo:block-container>
> <fo:block><fo:inline>&lt;xsl:template</fo:inline>
> <fo:inline>match</fo:inline>="foo"<fo:inline>&gt;</fo:inline><
> /fo:block>
> 
> <fo:block><fo:inline>&lt;</fo:inline>
> bar<fo:inline>&gt;</fo:inline></fo:block>
> <fo:block><fo:inline>&lt;/</fo:inline>bar<fo:inline>&gt;</fo:i
> nline></fo
> :block>
> 
> <fo:block><fo:inline>&lt;/</fo:inline>
> xsl:template<fo:inline>&gt;</fo:inline></fo:block>
> </fo:block-container>
> 
> this is similar to what I do with anything contained within a <code
> type="markup"></code> node in my markup.
> 
> 
>  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
> 
> 
> 

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