Hello Tom!
I think I am beginning to understand the process XSLT to PDF, and that's
a marvelous feeling!
And what makes me even more happy: I just sucessfully switched the XSLT
processor to Saxon, and everything works fine now! This may seem like a
little step to you, but to somebody being new to this topic, it seems
like a great (and unexpected!) success. :)
Thomas Schraitle wrote:
XML --[FOP]--> PDF
Internally, there are two steps but from a user perspective it looks like
as one step. Maybe your Altova calls FOP in such a way? I would recommend
to have a deeper look into your Altova configuration. You wrote, that you
have to enter the path to the FOP.bat file. Probably you can find some
options or the like. It would be also very interesting *how* Altova calls
the XSLT transformation (if at all).
Pity, there are no options at all. Only the path to an XSL processor
(they seem to recommend FOP) - and an option whether you want FOP (0.93)
compatibility mode or to make full use of the XSL-FO standard. (That was
one more thing that irritated me: Why do they promise "compatibility
with FOP" when I can't use the resulting XSLT with FOP? Now that I
understood the two-step-process it's clearer: I think they speak about
the resulting FO document which you can generate too.)
I now took a deeper look in the documentation and they say the arguments
they pass to the FOP.bat are "-fo filename.fo -pdf fileame.pdf" - so the
FO must've been build before this step.
The only other information about that I can get from the Altova FAQ:
Q: Are XSLT 2.0 and XPATH 2.0 supported in StyleVision® 2008?
A: As of StyleVision® 2008 XSLT 2.0 and XPATH 2.0 are both supported.
...ah well, built-in support, no FOP involved. To learn how exactly they
are doing it, I think I would've to contact them, but now that
everything runs fine with Saxon-B, there is no need to.
Thanks to you Tom, and thanks to everyone else who helped me here. Great
mailing list!
Regards from a content
Tobias
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