Re: [xsl-fo] Select background image from xml file

Hmm. I'm using Antenna House and generating an xml file, and just
passing that and a saved xsl file to the api with the .net
integration.If there's away to use parameters with this set up, I'm
not sure what is.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 3:41 PM, G. Ken Holman
<gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 2011-12-16 15:32 -0600, Colin DeClue wrote:
>>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I'm trying to have a background image over the entire page for a
>> report I'm doing, but I need to have the xml determine what the
>> background image should be. Is there an easy way I can do that?
>> Currently, I have:
>>
>> <fo:simple-page-master master-name="first"
>>           page-width="8.5in"   page-height="11in"
>>           margin-top="0.13in"  margin-bottom="0.25in"
>>           margin-left="0.175in" margin-right="0.25in"
>> background-image="Bol2.png">
>>
>> The Bol2.png part I want to be a uri I pass in.
>
>
> If you are generating your XSL-FO from XSLT, you can pass it in as a
> command-line parameter along the lines of:
>
>  <xsl:param name="bgimage"/>
>  ...
>  background-image='url("{$bgimage}")'
>
> Note that I've used the appropriate syntax for an image reference in an
> XSL-FO file.  While some processors may accept a simple file name as you've
> used, that is not what the specification expects to be used.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
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