Thought I might submit an idea of last resort: while this is /far/ from the "optimal" way to there, I spent a little time unravelling the ODF file layout by: (a) creating a new Writer document (b) typing in or creating just one thing (a table, a list, etc) into the document and saving it (c) unzipping the *.odt file and looking for the text I entered in the content.xml (using a good xml editor) file to see how it was structured.
When you get that far, save a blank/empty "content.xml" file to serve as a starting point (regarding all the rest of the file largely as a bunch of boilerplate) for your own transformations, then insert your own material into it and zip it back up into an *.odt file. Now, regardless of however you create the content.xml (and possibly style.xml) file(s), the one thing that gave me so much trouble was my source XML document schema (DITA content) was rather convoluted (lots of block-level items nested inside each other to arbitrary levels) whereas the ODF file is fairly flat and doesn't permit such nesting. Unwrapping all that nonsense in an XSLT was extremely tricky. Note that an *.odt file also keeps style information in two places... in the head of content.xml (for automatic styles such as clicking toolbar "bold" button) and in the style.xml file for more rigorously defined stuff. Hope that helps any... -----Original Message----- From: nancy_b [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 9:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Generating neat RTF documents with XSLTPROC and FOP Thank you for the information, dear Jeremias! In http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.94/output.html#rtf it is recommended to use the Open Document Format. How can I transform my XML documents into this format? Regards, Nancy Jeremias Maerki-2 wrote: > > No, the look of the generated RTF documents are directly derived from > XSL-FO and it can only be changed by improving the Java source code. > Please note that it's difficult to map XSL-FO to RTF and the RTF handler > doesn't work well for more complex documents. > > See also: > http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.94/output.html#rtf > > Jeremias Maerki > > > > On 01.10.2007 11:32:44 nancy_b wrote: >> >> Hello dear all! Is there any way to improve how the RTF documents look? >> Is >> the Look&Feel controlled somehow by the XSL stylesheets? Is it possible >> to >> improve the documents by substituting the default Word template with a >> customized one? >> >> Thank you in advance! >> >> Nancy >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Generating-neat-RTF-documents-with-XSLTPROC-and-FOP-tf 4547155.html#a12975915 >> Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Generating-neat-RTF-documents-with-XSLTPROC-and-FOP-tf 4547155.html#a12980192 Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
