page orientation
Hi, How can I generate a page at landscape orientation format in pdf file? Is it possible? I've tried fo:region-start reference-orientation=90 and fo:region-start reference-orientation=-90 but I got an warning from fop: reference-orientation is not implemented yet. Thanks for any help! Isana - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: page orientation
You can (obviously) achieve the same effect by swaping the values for page-width and page-height in the page-master. I don't know if there is a *proper* solution? -- Paul -Original Message- From: Isana Luzia Seabra Campos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 December 2001 11:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: page orientation Hi, How can I generate a page at landscape orientation format in pdf file? Is it possible? I've tried fo:region-start reference-orientation=90 and fo:region-start reference-orientation=-90 but I got an warning from fop: reference-orientation is not implemented yet. Thanks for any help! Isana *** DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the use of the named addressee. Access, copying or re-use of the information in it by any other person is not authorised. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: page orientation
I swapped the page width and height... I am not sure if this is the correct way. - Paul Smith -Original Message- From: Isana Luzia Seabra Campos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 December 2001 11:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: page orientation Hi, How can I generate a page at landscape orientation format in pdf file? Is it possible? I've tried fo:region-start reference-orientation=90 and fo:region-start reference-orientation=-90 but I got an warning from fop: reference-orientation is not implemented yet. Thanks for any help! Isana - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OutOfMemoryError in apache fop/cocoon
Hello I am using Apache fop-0_20 and Cocoon 2. I have OutOfMemoryError in fop for a large document. When I run it from the Windows command line I added: java -Xms64M -Xmx320M and this fixed the memory problem. How to do the same in cocoon? Barbara Slupik - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW: OutOfMemoryError in apache fop/cocoon
Hi Barbara! Well that's a cocoon question. Please ask that in a cocoon list. Greets Christian Beer -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Barbara Slupik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Dienstag, 4. Dezember 2001 14:18 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: OutOfMemoryError in apache fop/cocoon Hello I am using Apache fop-0_20 and Cocoon 2. I have OutOfMemoryError in fop for a large document. When I run it from the Windows command line I added: java -Xms64M -Xmx320M and this fixed the memory problem. How to do the same in cocoon? Barbara Slupik - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Page Breaks
How would I code my XSL to scan a text element for form feeds and insert a fo:block break-before=page and the corresponding /fo:block at the correct places? Jim -Original Message- From: Vladimir Sneblic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:13 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Page Breaks Try using break-before=page property of fo:block something like: fo:block break-before=page The text to appear on the next page/fo:block I think you can leave it empty (i.e. a block with no content), and use it purely as a page break mechanism. Have fun, Vlad -Original Message- From: Jim Urban [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 4 December 2001 11:07 a.m. To: FOP Dev Subject:Page Breaks I have a servlet which dynamically generates XML which is then translated into FO and ran through FOP to generate PDFs. What can I embed (like a \f) in the XML text that will cause FOP to automatically start a new page? Thanks, Jim Urban Product Manager Netsteps Inc. Suite 505E 1 Pierce Pl. Itasca, IL 60143 Voice: (630) 250-3045 x2164 Fax: (630) 250-3046 File: ATT70001.txt - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Page Breaks
I'm using XSLT to translate XML into FO. The field containing the form feeds is a text element. I need to be able to do this using XSL. Jim -Original Message- From: Mike Akerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:18 PM To: FOP Dev Subject: Re: Page Breaks On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Jim Urban wrote: I have a servlet which dynamically generates XML which is then translated into FO and ran through FOP to generate PDFs. What can I embed (like a \f) in the XML text that will cause FOP to automatically start a new page? Thanks, Jim Urban I've translated \f into: /fo:flow /fo:page-sequence fo:page-sequence master-name=simple fo:flow flow-name=xsl-region-body If thats not sufficently clear, I could provide an example plain-text to xsl-fo conversion program I've written. Michael Akerman - [EMAIL PROTECTED]Information Services (501) 575-5870 University of Arkansas http://www.uark.edu/~mike - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OutOfMemoryError in apache fop/cocoon
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 01:17:32PM -, Barbara Slupik wrote: I am using Apache fop-0_20 and Cocoon 2. I have OutOfMemoryError in fop for a large document. When I run it from the Windows command line I added: java -Xms64M -Xmx320M and this fixed the memory problem. How to do the same in cocoon? This needs to be set on your servlet container. For example, if you are using Tomcat 3.2.x, set the TOMCAT_OPTS environment variable or modify the $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/tomcat.sh script. Hope this helps. Cheers, Marcus -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : Managesoft GmbH $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse ;$,_/\ :' 60327 Frankfurt Germany ' /( \_' Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] .Business Hours : +49 69 9757 200 : - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Page Breaks
Not everything needs to be XSLT. In this case you could preprocess with a Perl one-liner that would be blazingly fast. Something like: perl -i.bak -pe 's!\x0C!ff/!g;' XMLFILE (Use double quotes on a Windows command-line). Then you'll have ff/ elements that you can act on in your XSLT. Regards, Arved Sandstrom - Original Message - From: Jim Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 9:25 AM Subject: RE: Page Breaks I'm using XSLT to translate XML into FO. The field containing the form feeds is a text element. I need to be able to do this using XSL. Jim -Original Message- From: Mike Akerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:18 PM To: FOP Dev Subject: Re: Page Breaks On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Jim Urban wrote: I have a servlet which dynamically generates XML which is then translated into FO and ran through FOP to generate PDFs. What can I embed (like a \f) in the XML text that will cause FOP to automatically start a new page? Thanks, Jim Urban I've translated \f into: /fo:flow /fo:page-sequence fo:page-sequence master-name=simple fo:flow flow-name=xsl-region-body If thats not sufficently clear, I could provide an example plain-text to xsl-fo conversion program I've written. Michael Akerman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Services (501) 575-5870 University of Arkansas http://www.uark.edu/~mike - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Page Breaks
Perl? We are Java Servlet web based application. We don't even own a Perl interpreter (thank God!). :) We are in the healthcare industry and data integrety is a major issue. We can not change the content of a client's data from within our code. The only way to modify the content of our client's data is through XSL which is maintained by the client. So as you see, we do need an XSL / FO sollution. Jim -Original Message- From: Arved Sandstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 8:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Page Breaks Not everything needs to be XSLT. In this case you could preprocess with a Perl one-liner that would be blazingly fast. Something like: perl -i.bak -pe 's!\x0C!ff/!g;' XMLFILE (Use double quotes on a Windows command-line). Then you'll have ff/ elements that you can act on in your XSLT. Regards, Arved Sandstrom - Original Message - From: Jim Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 9:25 AM Subject: RE: Page Breaks I'm using XSLT to translate XML into FO. The field containing the form feeds is a text element. I need to be able to do this using XSL. Jim -Original Message- From: Mike Akerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:18 PM To: FOP Dev Subject: Re: Page Breaks On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Jim Urban wrote: I have a servlet which dynamically generates XML which is then translated into FO and ran through FOP to generate PDFs. What can I embed (like a \f) in the XML text that will cause FOP to automatically start a new page? Thanks, Jim Urban I've translated \f into: /fo:flow /fo:page-sequence fo:page-sequence master-name=simple fo:flow flow-name=xsl-region-body If thats not sufficently clear, I could provide an example plain-text to xsl-fo conversion program I've written. Michael Akerman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Services (501) 575-5870 University of Arkansas http://www.uark.edu/~mike - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: page orientation
Hi Paul, this way works very well! Thanks a lot. Isana Smith, Paul R wrote: I swapped the page width and height... I am not sure if this is the correct way. - Paul Smith -Original Message- From: Isana Luzia Seabra Campos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 December 2001 11:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: page orientation Hi, How can I generate a page at landscape orientation format in pdf file? Is it possible? I've tried fo:region-start reference-orientation=90 and fo:region-start reference-orientation=-90 but I got an warning from fop: reference-orientation is not implemented yet. Thanks for any help! Isana - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PROPOSAL] FormattingResults
Hi foppers I did something I think is useful for some of us: It's basically a couple of new classes to report the results of a FO transformation. FormattingResults reports the total number of pages that have been generated and has a list of PageSequenceResult objects that return the number of pages generated within a particular page-sequence. PageSequenceResult also returns the page-sequence's id attribute, so a calling application can establish a context between the page-sequence and a logical document. This is especially handy if you're rendering multiple documents within one XML-file that are separated into multiple page-sequences. Attached is a ZIP-File with a diff and the two new classes. The diff is against the tag 'fop-0_20_2-maintain'. I think this should be brought over to the main branch at some time. The two new classes go into the package org.apache.fop.apps. As a little side-effect the patch includes a little modification to the render() methods in Driver.java which removes some duplicate code. Tell me what you think! If someone thinks there is a better way of doing this, I'm open to suggestions. Cheers, Jeremias Märki mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OUTLINE AG Postfach 3954 - Rhynauerstr. 15 - CH-6002 Luzern Fon +41 (41) 317 2020 - Fax +41 (41) 317 2029 Internet http://www.outline.ch FormattingResults.zip Description: Zip compressed data - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Page Breaks
Our application is a web application implemented in Java Servlets. To use the perl approach, we would have to call a perl script from within our servlet, passing the data in memory to the script. The script would then have to modify the data and return it in memory to the servlet. The data can NOT be written to a file without encrypting it. Using XSLT does not change the data. It simply formats the data for display. This formatting is controlled by the client, not our Java code. Our servlet has the ability to send back the raw XML so the client can see the raw unformatted data for verification purposes, I must maintain this option. I'll use anything that works. the day I start imposing my language preferences on a solution is the day I should look for other work. As a product development manager, I can not let each developer (myself included) use anything that works. I manage a TEAM of developers. We build and maintain professional software products that are built on a common frame work, language and set of tools. If you could not conform to our way of doing things I would ask you to look for other work. Jim -Original Message- From: Arved Sandstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 9:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Page Breaks I hear you saying that modification of XML data with XSL is not really modification at all, but modification with Perl is bad. Seems somewhat unusual. Sorry you've had problems with scripting languages. I happen to be a professional software developer, and despite some current disillusionment with Java hype, I'll use anything that works. Past 2 years it was all J2EE and XML; I am working on a contract right now that is MS SQL Server, VC++ and ASPs. I could care less - the day I start imposing my language preferences on a solution is the day I should look for other work. And in fact I did not understand your argument. Regards, AHS - Original Message - From: Jim Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:33 AM Subject: RE: Page Breaks Perl? We are Java Servlet web based application. We don't even own a Perl interpreter (thank God!). :) We are in the healthcare industry and data integrety is a major issue. We can not change the content of a client's data from within our code. The only way to modify the content of our client's data is through XSL which is maintained by the client. So as you see, we do need an XSL / FO sollution. Jim -Original Message- From: Arved Sandstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 8:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Page Breaks Not everything needs to be XSLT. In this case you could preprocess with a Perl one-liner that would be blazingly fast. Something like: perl -i.bak -pe 's!\x0C!ff/!g;' XMLFILE (Use double quotes on a Windows command-line). Then you'll have ff/ elements that you can act on in your XSLT. Regards, Arved Sandstrom - Original Message - From: Jim Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 9:25 AM Subject: RE: Page Breaks I'm using XSLT to translate XML into FO. The field containing the form feeds is a text element. I need to be able to do this using XSL. Jim -Original Message- From: Mike Akerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:18 PM To: FOP Dev Subject: Re: Page Breaks On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Jim Urban wrote: I have a servlet which dynamically generates XML which is then translated into FO and ran through FOP to generate PDFs. What can I embed (like a \f) in the XML text that will cause FOP to automatically start a new page? Thanks, Jim Urban I've translated \f into: /fo:flow /fo:page-sequence fo:page-sequence master-name=simple fo:flow flow-name=xsl-region-body If thats not sufficently clear, I could provide an example plain-text to xsl-fo conversion program I've written. Michael Akerman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Services (501) 575-5870 University of Arkansas http://www.uark.edu/~mike - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email:
Re: Page Breaks
Jim Urban wrote: Using XSLT does not change the data. It simply formats the data for display. not that this relates to FOP, but I think XSLT, as its turing complete, cannot be said to change any data any less than perl, or name a language James - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Page Breaks
Not to start a war here...let me put it this way. The fact that my initial suggestion referenced Perl is actually irrelevant. Your servlet can do the equivalent. After all, at the point where you are presenting XML to the XSLT processor it is plaintext, right? So we are talking about inserting one extra transformation step at this point...doesn't even have to use regular expressions, and of course it can be written in Java. Nothing needs to be written out to an intermediate file at all. What I don't understand is an insistence that the only _modification_ and _transformation_ which can be done with the data is through XSLT. And make no mistake, XSLT formatting for display, as you put it, _is_ transformation and modification. How do you figure that XSLT does not allow you to change the data? The original data isn't what we are talking about in any case - even my Perl one-liner did a backup. As far as the comment about not letting developers use whatever technology they like, hey, that's a given. Every project has a point where the choices like that are made. Here's what I sense - you guys have a strong commitment to data integrity and security, and I respect that. But you mistakenly assume that use of XSLT is somehow going to avoid data integrity problems, and I dispute that. _Correct_ XSLT code will avoid that problem, just as _correct_ use of another approach would also (I use the word code advisedly, because XSLT is code; no different from Perl, actually). Regards, Arved Sandstrom - Original Message - From: Jim Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 11:54 AM Subject: RE: Page Breaks Our application is a web application implemented in Java Servlets. To use the perl approach, we would have to call a perl script from within our servlet, passing the data in memory to the script. The script would then have to modify the data and return it in memory to the servlet. The data can NOT be written to a file without encrypting it. Using XSLT does not change the data. It simply formats the data for display. This formatting is controlled by the client, not our Java code. Our servlet has the ability to send back the raw XML so the client can see the raw unformatted data for verification purposes, I must maintain this option. I'll use anything that works. the day I start imposing my language preferences on a solution is the day I should look for other work. As a product development manager, I can not let each developer (myself included) use anything that works. I manage a TEAM of developers. We build and maintain professional software products that are built on a common frame work, language and set of tools. If you could not conform to our way of doing things I would ask you to look for other work. Jim -Original Message- From: Arved Sandstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 9:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Page Breaks I hear you saying that modification of XML data with XSL is not really modification at all, but modification with Perl is bad. Seems somewhat unusual. Sorry you've had problems with scripting languages. I happen to be a professional software developer, and despite some current disillusionment with Java hype, I'll use anything that works. Past 2 years it was all J2EE and XML; I am working on a contract right now that is MS SQL Server, VC++ and ASPs. I could care less - the day I start imposing my language preferences on a solution is the day I should look for other work. And in fact I did not understand your argument. Regards, AHS - Original Message - From: Jim Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:33 AM Subject: RE: Page Breaks Perl? We are Java Servlet web based application. We don't even own a Perl interpreter (thank God!). :) We are in the healthcare industry and data integrety is a major issue. We can not change the content of a client's data from within our code. The only way to modify the content of our client's data is through XSL which is maintained by the client. So as you see, we do need an XSL / FO sollution. Jim -Original Message- From: Arved Sandstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 8:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Page Breaks Not everything needs to be XSLT. In this case you could preprocess with a Perl one-liner that would be blazingly fast. Something like: perl -i.bak -pe 's!\x0C!ff/!g;' XMLFILE (Use double quotes on a Windows command-line). Then you'll have ff/ elements that you can act on in your XSLT. Regards, Arved Sandstrom - Original Message - From: Jim Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 9:25 AM Subject: RE: Page Breaks I'm using XSLT to translate XML into FO. The field containing the form
RE: Page Breaks
I agree with what you are saying. Here is the rule that I may not have explicitly stated: The data in our database comes from several legacy system. This data can not be modified by anything that our client does not directly control. Our applications are of the highest level of mission critical. They are used by physicians to determine how to treat patients and errors in the data we present can have life or death consequences. XSLT is under the control of our client. The client can edit the XSL file. The client can also request our servlets to return the raw XML for comparing to the database to insure the data is 100% correct. Any modifications (however small) done by our Java code is outside our client's control. That is, our client does not have our Java source and can not make changes to it. It all comes down to our having to meet a vary huge and strict set of federal laws regarding data integrity and security called HIPPA. I hope this explains my situation. Now lets move on. :) Jim -Original Message- From: Arved Sandstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Page Breaks Not to start a war here...let me put it this way. The fact that my initial suggestion referenced Perl is actually irrelevant. Your servlet can do the equivalent. After all, at the point where you are presenting XML to the XSLT processor it is plaintext, right? So we are talking about inserting one extra transformation step at this point...doesn't even have to use regular expressions, and of course it can be written in Java. Nothing needs to be written out to an intermediate file at all. What I don't understand is an insistence that the only _modification_ and _transformation_ which can be done with the data is through XSLT. And make no mistake, XSLT formatting for display, as you put it, _is_ transformation and modification. How do you figure that XSLT does not allow you to change the data? The original data isn't what we are talking about in any case - even my Perl one-liner did a backup. As far as the comment about not letting developers use whatever technology they like, hey, that's a given. Every project has a point where the choices like that are made. Here's what I sense - you guys have a strong commitment to data integrity and security, and I respect that. But you mistakenly assume that use of XSLT is somehow going to avoid data integrity problems, and I dispute that. _Correct_ XSLT code will avoid that problem, just as _correct_ use of another approach would also (I use the word code advisedly, because XSLT is code; no different from Perl, actually). Regards, Arved Sandstrom - Original Message - From: Jim Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 11:54 AM Subject: RE: Page Breaks Our application is a web application implemented in Java Servlets. To use the perl approach, we would have to call a perl script from within our servlet, passing the data in memory to the script. The script would then have to modify the data and return it in memory to the servlet. The data can NOT be written to a file without encrypting it. Using XSLT does not change the data. It simply formats the data for display. This formatting is controlled by the client, not our Java code. Our servlet has the ability to send back the raw XML so the client can see the raw unformatted data for verification purposes, I must maintain this option. I'll use anything that works. the day I start imposing my language preferences on a solution is the day I should look for other work. As a product development manager, I can not let each developer (myself included) use anything that works. I manage a TEAM of developers. We build and maintain professional software products that are built on a common frame work, language and set of tools. If you could not conform to our way of doing things I would ask you to look for other work. Jim -Original Message- From: Arved Sandstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 9:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Page Breaks I hear you saying that modification of XML data with XSL is not really modification at all, but modification with Perl is bad. Seems somewhat unusual. Sorry you've had problems with scripting languages. I happen to be a professional software developer, and despite some current disillusionment with Java hype, I'll use anything that works. Past 2 years it was all J2EE and XML; I am working on a contract right now that is MS SQL Server, VC++ and ASPs. I could care less - the day I start imposing my language preferences on a solution is the day I should look for other work. And in fact I did not understand your argument. Regards, AHS - Original Message - From: Jim Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:33 AM Subject: RE: Page Breaks
SSL
In my app, I use a servlet to generate PDFs on the fly. The app is a SSL site. The PDFs contain numerous images that are generated dynamically. How do I specify a relative path for the external-graphic src? Environment: FOP: 0.20.2RC JDK 1.3.1_01 Windows 2000 The only way I can get images working is using full path: http://localhost/Pie where Pie is the image producing servlet. If I try https://localhost/Pie absolute or /Pie relative it doesn't work. Any thoughts appreciated, Todd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Page Breaks
How about an extension to XSL / Xalan? Would that be permissible, or possible? xsl:value-of select='myExt:mayHaveLineBreak(rawNode,'\n')'/ Ugly, but keeps control with the client... -Original Message- From: Jim Urban [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 5:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Page Breaks I agree with what you are saying. Here is the rule that I may not have explicitly stated: The data in our database comes from several legacy system. This data can not be modified by anything that our client does not directly control. Our applications are of the highest level of mission critical. They are used by physicians to determine how to treat patients and errors in the data we present can have life or death consequences. XSLT is under the control of our client. The client can edit the XSL file. The client can also request our servlets to return the raw XML for comparing to the database to insure the data is 100% correct. Any modifications (however small) done by our Java code is outside our client's control. That is, our client does not have our Java source and can not make changes to it. It all comes down to our having to meet a vary huge and strict set of federal laws regarding data integrity and security called HIPPA. I hope this explains my situation. Now lets move on. :) Jim -Original Message- From: Arved Sandstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Page Breaks Not to start a war here...let me put it this way. The fact that my initial suggestion referenced Perl is actually irrelevant. Your servlet can do the equivalent. After all, at the point where you are presenting XML to the XSLT processor it is plaintext, right? So we are talking about inserting one extra transformation step at this point...doesn't even have to use regular expressions, and of course it can be written in Java. Nothing needs to be written out to an intermediate file at all. What I don't understand is an insistence that the only _modification_ and _transformation_ which can be done with the data is through XSLT. And make no mistake, XSLT formatting for display, as you put it, _is_ transformation and modification. How do you figure that XSLT does not allow you to change the data? The original data isn't what we are talking about in any case - even my Perl one-liner did a backup. As far as the comment about not letting developers use whatever technology they like, hey, that's a given. Every project has a point where the choices like that are made. Here's what I sense - you guys have a strong commitment to data integrity and security, and I respect that. But you mistakenly assume that use of XSLT is somehow going to avoid data integrity problems, and I dispute that. _Correct_ XSLT code will avoid that problem, just as _correct_ use of another approach would also (I use the word code advisedly, because XSLT is code; no different from Perl, actually). Regards, Arved Sandstrom - Original Message - From: Jim Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 11:54 AM Subject: RE: Page Breaks Our application is a web application implemented in Java Servlets. To use the perl approach, we would have to call a perl script from within our servlet, passing the data in memory to the script. The script would then have to modify the data and return it in memory to the servlet. The data can NOT be written to a file without encrypting it. Using XSLT does not change the data. It simply formats the data for display. This formatting is controlled by the client, not our Java code. Our servlet has the ability to send back the raw XML so the client can see the raw unformatted data for verification purposes, I must maintain this option. I'll use anything that works. the day I start imposing my language preferences on a solution is the day I should look for other work. As a product development manager, I can not let each developer (myself included) use anything that works. I manage a TEAM of developers. We build and maintain professional software products that are built on a common frame work, language and set of tools. If you could not conform to our way of doing things I would ask you to look for other work. Jim -Original Message- From: Arved Sandstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 9:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Page Breaks I hear you saying that modification of XML data with XSL is not really modification at all, but modification with Perl is bad. Seems somewhat unusual. Sorry you've had problems with scripting languages. I happen to be a professional software developer, and despite some current disillusionment with Java hype, I'll use anything that works. Past 2 years it was all J2EE and XML; I am working on a contract right now that is MS SQL Server, VC++ and ASPs. I could
RE: Newbie - controlling table alignment
I think the post you needed to see is: Hi, please have a look at the FOP FAQs, I think the solution should be in there: - create a table as large as the page-body with only one cell - put your table into the block inside that cell - center the block in that cell HTH, Corinna You can see the whole thread at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=100703165918190w=2 Anyway, to give you an example, assuming your html is: div align=right table [Stuff Inside Table] /table /div Then in XSL-FO (with FOP at least) you have to do: fo:table fo:table-column column-width=[What Ever Width You Want]/ fo:table-body fo:table-row fo:table-cell fo:block text-align=end fo:table [Stuff Inside Table] /fo:table /fo:block /fo:table-cell /fo:table-row /fo:table-body /fo:table Hope that helps. If you are still confused then maybe you could send me the files you are working with? --- Paul Smith -Original Message- From: John M. Corro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 December 2001 15:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newbie - controlling table alignment I've seen several posts in various archives asking the same question, but haven't been able to find an answer yet - how do you control aligning of an entire table (not the individual cell's contents)? ie in HTML something like div align=left | center | right table... /table /div I've attempted using the text-align tag, but didn't seem to work. *** DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the use of the named addressee. Access, copying or re-use of the information in it by any other person is not authorised. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Page Breaks
I doubt that would be permissible since the client wouldn't be able to control the extension (I'm assuming an extension is a compiled class). Jim -Original Message- From: Alistair Hopkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Page Breaks How about an extension to XSL / Xalan? Would that be permissible, or possible? xsl:value-of select='myExt:mayHaveLineBreak(rawNode,'\n')'/ Ugly, but keeps control with the client... -Original Message- From: Jim Urban [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 5:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Page Breaks I agree with what you are saying. Here is the rule that I may not have explicitly stated: The data in our database comes from several legacy system. This data can not be modified by anything that our client does not directly control. Our applications are of the highest level of mission critical. They are used by physicians to determine how to treat patients and errors in the data we present can have life or death consequences. XSLT is under the control of our client. The client can edit the XSL file. The client can also request our servlets to return the raw XML for comparing to the database to insure the data is 100% correct. Any modifications (however small) done by our Java code is outside our client's control. That is, our client does not have our Java source and can not make changes to it. It all comes down to our having to meet a vary huge and strict set of federal laws regarding data integrity and security called HIPPA. I hope this explains my situation. Now lets move on. :) Jim -Original Message- From: Arved Sandstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Page Breaks Not to start a war here...let me put it this way. The fact that my initial suggestion referenced Perl is actually irrelevant. Your servlet can do the equivalent. After all, at the point where you are presenting XML to the XSLT processor it is plaintext, right? So we are talking about inserting one extra transformation step at this point...doesn't even have to use regular expressions, and of course it can be written in Java. Nothing needs to be written out to an intermediate file at all. What I don't understand is an insistence that the only _modification_ and _transformation_ which can be done with the data is through XSLT. And make no mistake, XSLT formatting for display, as you put it, _is_ transformation and modification. How do you figure that XSLT does not allow you to change the data? The original data isn't what we are talking about in any case - even my Perl one-liner did a backup. As far as the comment about not letting developers use whatever technology they like, hey, that's a given. Every project has a point where the choices like that are made. Here's what I sense - you guys have a strong commitment to data integrity and security, and I respect that. But you mistakenly assume that use of XSLT is somehow going to avoid data integrity problems, and I dispute that. _Correct_ XSLT code will avoid that problem, just as _correct_ use of another approach would also (I use the word code advisedly, because XSLT is code; no different from Perl, actually). Regards, Arved Sandstrom - Original Message - From: Jim Urban [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 11:54 AM Subject: RE: Page Breaks Our application is a web application implemented in Java Servlets. To use the perl approach, we would have to call a perl script from within our servlet, passing the data in memory to the script. The script would then have to modify the data and return it in memory to the servlet. The data can NOT be written to a file without encrypting it. Using XSLT does not change the data. It simply formats the data for display. This formatting is controlled by the client, not our Java code. Our servlet has the ability to send back the raw XML so the client can see the raw unformatted data for verification purposes, I must maintain this option. I'll use anything that works. the day I start imposing my language preferences on a solution is the day I should look for other work. As a product development manager, I can not let each developer (myself included) use anything that works. I manage a TEAM of developers. We build and maintain professional software products that are built on a common frame work, language and set of tools. If you could not conform to our way of doing things I would ask you to look for other work. Jim -Original Message- From: Arved Sandstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 9:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Page Breaks I hear you saying that modification of XML data with XSL is not really modification at all, but modification with Perl is bad. Seems somewhat unusual.
RE: OutOfMemoryError in apache fop/cocoon
I set the TOMCAT_OPTS variable and it worked! Thank you very much Barbara -Original Message- From: Marcus Crafter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 December 2001 13:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: OutOfMemoryError in apache fop/cocoon On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 01:17:32PM -, Barbara Slupik wrote: I am using Apache fop-0_20 and Cocoon 2. I have OutOfMemoryError in fop for a large document. When I run it from the Windows command line I added: java -Xms64M -Xmx320M and this fixed the memory problem. How to do the same in cocoon? This needs to be set on your servlet container. For example, if you are using Tomcat 3.2.x, set the TOMCAT_OPTS environment variable or modify the $TOMCAT_HOME/bin/tomcat.sh script. Hope this helps. Cheers, Marcus -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : Managesoft GmbH $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse ;$,_/\ :' 60327 Frankfurt Germany ' /( \_' Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] .Business Hours : +49 69 9757 200 : - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Page Breaks
Hi Jim, Sounds like a text-replace is called for. A few questions: - Do you have the opportunity to pre-process the goods via Java/sed/perl or something like that? That would be the easiest way to do a text replace before you even get to the XSLT processor. - You might need to tweak the XML encoding to be able to handle the ASCII form-feed character un-escaped. Depends on the parser you're using. - If your environment allows it you can also invoke XSLT extension functions to do the replacement. - Have you thought of trying the contains(), substring-before() and substring-after() functions recursively to try to locate and extract the text surrounding the form-feed character? It won't be pretty but if you *must* stay in XSLT, it's pretty much your only choice. Just some ideas... Ramin How would I code my XSL to scan a text element for form feeds and insert a fo:block break-before=page and the corresponding /fo:block at the correct places? Jim -Original Message- From: Vladimir Sneblic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:13 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Page Breaks Try using break-before=page property of fo:block something like: fo:block break-before=page The text to appear on the next page/fo:block I think you can leave it empty (i.e. a block with no content), and use it purely as a page break mechanism. Have fun, Vlad -Original Message- From: Jim Urban [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 4 December 2001 11:07 a.m. To: FOP Dev Subject:Page Breaks I have a servlet which dynamically generates XML which is then translated into FO and ran through FOP to generate PDFs. What can I embed (like a \f) in the XML text that will cause FOP to automatically start a new page? Thanks, Jim Urban Product Manager Netsteps Inc. Suite 505E 1 Pierce Pl. Itasca, IL 60143 Voice: (630) 250-3045 x2164 Fax: (630) 250-3046 File: ATT70001.txt - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Page Breaks
-Original Message- From: Ramin Firoozye [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 2:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Page Breaks Hi Jim, Sounds like a text-replace is called for. A few questions: - Do you have the opportunity to pre-process the goods via Java/sed/perl or something like that? That would be the easiest way to do a text replace before you even get to the XSLT processor. No. The text must be untouched by everything but XSLT. - You might need to tweak the XML encoding to be able to handle the ASCII form-feed character un-escaped. Depends on the parser you're using. Using Xalan. Xalan says unicode 12 (decimal for form feed) is invalid. - If your environment allows it you can also invoke XSLT extension functions to do the replacement. The clients don't want any non-standard (extension) translation functions. - Have you thought of trying the contains(), substring-before() and substring-after() functions recursively to try to locate and extract the text surrounding the form-feed character? It won't be pretty but if you *must* stay in XSLT, it's pretty much your only choice. Yeah, that is ugly. Just some ideas... Thanks, for the ideas. I am currently working with our DBA to see if we can store the contents of each page in a seperate table row. That way we can use xsl:for-each to print each row in a seperate fo:block with a break-after option. Ramin How would I code my XSL to scan a text element for form feeds and insert a fo:block break-before=page and the corresponding /fo:block at the correct places? Jim -Original Message- From: Vladimir Sneblic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:13 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Page Breaks Try using break-before=page property of fo:block something like: fo:block break-before=page The text to appear on the next page/fo:block I think you can leave it empty (i.e. a block with no content), and use it purely as a page break mechanism. Have fun, Vlad -Original Message- From: Jim Urban [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 4 December 2001 11:07 a.m. To: FOP Dev Subject:Page Breaks I have a servlet which dynamically generates XML which is then translated into FO and ran through FOP to generate PDFs. What can I embed (like a \f) in the XML text that will cause FOP to automatically start a new page? Thanks, Jim Urban Product Manager Netsteps Inc. Suite 505E 1 Pierce Pl. Itasca, IL 60143 Voice: (630) 250-3045 x2164 Fax: (630) 250-3046 File: ATT70001.txt - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fo:external-graphic question
Ours is an SSL site. Like I wrote I just sue the absolute file path below. It works for all the Unix boxes. PDF imbeds the image anyway, rather than just linking to it and letting the browser server it up like HTML does. So you shouldn't see that secure-to-insecure error. Todd McGrath wrote: Will this work for SSL sites? I have servlets that produce images (graphs) and I'm try to include them in the generated PDFs. I wasn't sure that you could use relative path for src attribute? Since I wasn't able to get it working, I needed to create a separate site in order to use absolute path to servlets (example: http://localhost/Pie, where Pie is the graph producing servlet) Obviously, I would like to use relative so users do not see pop-up message about not secure Is anyone using FOP in SSL enabled sites with external-graphic that are not static filebased? Todd -Original Message- From: Max Froumentin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 10:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: fo:external-graphic question You wrote: If you want a relative URI, why not just use a relative URI? I.e., src=config/isappdev/applications/RVWebApp1/WEB-INF/lib/ClinTrialLogoGreenBi g.gif? Then the current protocol, host, and directory will be used as the base URI and the relative URI interpreted relative to that. And of course this should ideally be src=url(config/isappdev...) Max. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
