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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] FOP - what, where, when, how?
 I'm looking at converting XML documents via XSL to PDF. I have looked in the archives, etc. and I see a lot of references to something called FOP by James Tauber. I even saw an article by someone which gave an example of using it (which admittedly was not working), that looked similar to what I am doing. Firstly, the namespace reference I saw mentioned; http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl/FO seems to be a broken link. Secondly, I don't have Java on my machine. XT comes as a nice Win32 executable. Does FOP? Even while writing this post I have found out that FO is part of XSL, but still lack much information that I will be studying up on. I am also unsure about the nature of PDF and licensing issues, and what the difference is between the FOP output and the stuff that Adobe's Acrobat writer program produces. I currently am successfully converting the XML to HTML via XSL such that when I double click on the XML file, IE6 automatically runs and displays the XML as HTML. Can I do this when converting into PDF? I.e. if I double click on the XML it will automatically be displayed by Adobe Acrobat reader? Here is a sample of how I am doing my HTML conversion. Is it possible someone could edit it to work with FOP, and post it back? sample.xml ---------- <?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="sample.xsl"?> <mydoc> <question>Are you there?</question> <answer>Maybe!</answer> </mydoc> sample.xsl ---------- <?xml version="1.0"?> <html xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xsl:version="1.0"> <head><title>Question and answer session</title></head> <body> <b>Question: </b><xsl:value-of select="/mydoc/question"/><br/> <b>Answer: </b><i><xsl:value-of select="/mydoc/question"/></i><br/> </body></html> Many thanks for any assistance. Alastair. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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