Thanks for the valuable info, dear Adrian!
Regards,
Nancy

Adrian Cumiskey wrote:
> 
> Hi Nancy,
> 
> If you want to transform your XML documents into Open Document Format 
> you could write an XSLT stylesheet that is able to take your XML 
> documents and achieve the transformation.  Depending on the complexity 
> of the layout you require, this would involve you spending quite a bit 
> of time learning the semantics of ODF (see 
> http://std.dkuug.dk/keld/iso26300-odf/is26300/OpenDocument-v1.0ed2-cs1.html).
> 
> If you are a Java programmer, a potentially easier approach might be to 
> programmatically DOM parse your input XML document and combine the 
> traversal of this with using some of the document building blocks 
> available in Odf4j which is part of the OpenOffice.org ODF Toolkit 
> Project (see http://odftoolkit.openoffice.org/ and 
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Odf4j).
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Adrian.
> 
> nancy_b wrote:
>> 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
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