But then, what is the purpose of extensions? There are several extensions
which generate barcodes (barcode4j, zxing-fop-qrcode)... so if I follow your
reasoning, we should not use those and rather pre-generate the images and
use fo:external-graphic, right?
I don't see what you're talking about FOP supporting natively MediaWiki. How
does it support MediaWiki?
What I want to do is create an extension which can create a subtree of the
FO tree (and reusing basic nodes like Block, Table, FOText) but I can't find
any documentation explaining how to do that (if it's possible). I'd prefer
an extension doing the wiki->fo transformation in one pass instead of having
to write two XSL's with intermediate results:
<root>
<description>
* item1
* item2
</description>
</root>
transformed to:
<root>
<description>
<fo:list-block>
<fo:list-item>...</fo:list-item>
<fo:list-item>...</fo:list-item>
</fo:list-item>
</description>
</root>
and then only transformed into full fo:
<fo:root>
...
</fo:root>
I prefer having a self-contained extension which does all the work for me.
Regards,
Kalgon
Christopher R. Maden wrote:
>
> On 06/14/2011 07:25 AM, kalgon wrote:
>> Yes I could transform the XML prior to rendering it to PDF but that
>> wouldn't be as nice and clean as an extension which would take care
>> of everything. Moreover, an extension can be reused whereas
>> pre-transforming the XML would require a specific XSLT for each XML
>> schema... definitely not the way I want to go.
>
> Except that’s how XSL works, and what FOP implements. FOP takes
> exactly[*] 1 kind of input: the FO markup in XML defined by the XSL
> Recommendations.
>
> Nearly all FOP users, as well as users of other XSL formatters,
> transform their source either with XSLT or some other tool into FO for
> presentation to the formatter.
>
> If FOP supports MediaWiki syntax natively, why not MoinMoin or some
> other wiki? Why not HTML, DocBook, DITA, CALS, ...?
>
> ~Chris
>
> [*] approximately
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