Hello, thanks,
yes, i was thinking the same after made some tests by command-line. At the end i will need the pdf only for Reporting, and i can send the xml for these requests of reports as i want. So, maybe exists there in the www sample xml-source for marking up report-structures, like page- header,page-footer, group-change, table-header- table-footer, page-change, title of reports, etc. ? Greetings from Hamburg, Germany Hans Braumüller -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: J.Pietschmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 10. September 2004 23:24 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: xml > xhtml > xsl-fo > pdf Braumüller wrote: > is in the wwww out there, some example how to chain via a > java-servlet a transformation via xslt from xml to xhtml and from > xhtml apply another xslt to transform to xsl-fo (for this step exists > ready to use stylesheets)and then generate pdf ? You will get better results if you transform your source XML directly into XSLFO. I know it is tempting to use the XML->XHTML->XSLFO approach, because this apparently means there's only one transformation to maintain, but XHTML and publishing grade PDF are dissimilar enough that an "generic" XHTML->XSLFO(PDF) usually wont cut it, because the XHTML already lacks information from the original XML. It may be worthwhile to go from the source XML to an intermediate custom XML which on one hand is close enough to representation to allow simple transformation to either XHTML or XSLFO for most of the structure, but on the other hand retains enough semantic from the original XML that elements which must be handled differently in the two representations can be handled differently. Setting this up requires experience and most likely extensive prototyping. J.Pietschmann --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
