Re: RenderX XEP XSL Issue

Hi Rahul,

TMK, RenderX is an XSL processor capable of producing PDF using
XSL-FO, but it provides only the "rendering" side of this service, not
the initial "transformation" from your XML into the XML-formatted "XSL
Formatting Objects" that it wants for its own input. In other words
this is a two-step process: XML -> XSL-FO -> PDF, and RenderX does
only the second step. For the first step, it calls an external
processor. Most often, that first stage implements a transformation
programmed using XSLT. Here, the particular details depend on your
setup,.but it is common to use Saxon with RenderX for the first step
(in part since they are both in Java).

Note there are two separate acronyms here: XSLT ("XSL
Transformations") and XSL-FO ("formatting objects"). And two separate
inputs to your process: an XML file with the data, and an XSLT
(transformation) which "programs" how to convert that XML into XSL-FO
(for RenderX to make PDF from).

Having identified these resources on your system, you can simply edit
them "by hand" with any text editor supporting their character set
(often not always UTF-8). And then -- outside RenderX -- you can
transform them using Saxon (there many ways to do this), to develop
and debug them.

Or (much easier especially with XSL-FO), you could use an XML Editor
or IDE, such as my favorite, oXygen XML Editor (oxygenxml.com) which
provides tools for editing and running transformations and other
operations over XML using both commercial and commodity tools such as
RenderX and Saxon.

But this is a difficult question to answer since what's best for you
won't be best for everyone. Have you looked for any tutorials on line
or in books on starting with XSL?

Cheers,
Wendell

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 5:24 AM Rahul Singh
rahulsinghindia15@xxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I installed RenderX and found XEP Assistant when hit x4u.bat file. We can
select available XML and XSL file and can be generate PDF. but if i want to
edit the XML or XSL where and what functionality is available in RenderX. How
to write XML or XSL/XSLFO code in RenderX
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Rahul
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