Hi Igor,
It is not clear to me how these <text> elements are defined - in your xml
input? If so how do you transform them to fo whilst retaining the id
attribute? Could you provide a small example of the xml and the
corresponding xsl that you wish to be input of fop.
Thanks,
Pete
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Igor Rosenberg <
igor.rosenb...@atosresearch.eu> wrote:
> Dear FOP mailinglist readers,
>
>
>
> I’ve been fighting with the Apache FOP source for a week, but I can’t solve
> my problem alone…
>
>
>
> One of the features of the application I’m writing produces a PDF, based on
> an XML that follows a simple schema (header info, tables, images and text,
> but nothing fancy). Generating the FO then the PDF are the easy steps. Fop
> does the job marvelously. Now I need to output to the user the coordinates
> of bounding boxes. Those bounding boxes must represent the placement in the
> PDF of the original text within the XML. To provide an example:
>
>
>
> If I had in my original XML ,
>
> <text id=”xxx”>This text appears somewhere in the PDF</text>
>
> I would want, during the XML to PDF process, to output something like
>
> Bounding_box {id=”xxx”, x=34, y=45, w=444,h=25}
>
> I understand this as “the original text of tag xxx is contained in the pdf
> in the rectangle starting at point (34,45), of width 444, and height 25”
>
> (if the text is split into several pages or areas, receiving a list of
> rectangles would be fine)
>
>
>
> To summarize: how can I know the position in the final PDF of the original
> text?
>
>
>
> I’ve tried decorating different classes of FOP, looking at the
> FOTreeBuilder, the AreaTreeParser, but failed to maintain the identifier of
> the original text tags.
>
> I’d prefer staying with release 0.95, but can also use the trunk if
> required.
>
>
>
> While browsing, I thought that the accessibility features might help, but
> couldn’t figure out how
>
>
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/documentation/content/xdocs/trunk/accessibility.xml?view=markup
>
> I thought relying on the Area Tree, but couldn’t retrieve the original id
> that were set to the original XML tags.
>
>
> http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/AreaTreeXMLDocumentation
>
> http://old.nabble.com/Area-Tree-Handling-to24431098.html
>
>
>
> Thanks for any help
>
>
>
> Igor
>
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