--- Manuel Mall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 01:32 pm, Leon Pu wrote:
> > --- Daniel Noll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Leon Pu wrote:
> > > >So, is it possible to use one stylesheet to transform XML to
> both
> > >
> > > HTML
> > >
> > > >and PDF?
> > >
> > > Not as such. Though it might be possible to cheat by writing one
> > > stylesheet to transform to HTML, and then transforming the HTML
> to
> > > XSL-FO in a separate step using a stylesheet which will be
> > > constant.
> >
> > It means we have to do the generation of HTML and PDF in two steps?
> > What's the method in some websites that provide the PDF download
> for
> > current webpage? Are these websites using the same solution?
> >
> Typically two different approaches will be used:
>
> a) The site is written in XML and two different stylesheets are used.
>
> One for conversion to HTML and one for conversion into XSL-FO. The
> XSL-FO output is then given to an XSL-FO processor (e.g. FOP) for
> conversion into PDF. Note that most XSL-FO processors can make the
> two
> steps XML -> XSL-FO and XSL-FO -> PDF look like one but internally
> both
> conversions are performed.
>
> b) The site is written in XHMTL and a stylesheet is used to convert
> XHMTL into XSL-FO. Again this is followed by the XSL-FO -> PDF
> conversion.
>
> A possible third alternative is for a site written in HTML that an
> HTML
> to XHTML conversion tool is used (Note this would not be XSL based).
> So
> we have HTML -> XHTML using a 3rd party tool, XHTML -> XSL-FO using
> an
> XSL stylesheet and processor (e.g. XALAN), XSL-FO -> PDF (e.g. FOP).
It's much clear to me, thanks.
Leon
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