Hello,
What is the simplest way of converting file.xml = file.fo = file.pdf
Second part is straight forward, I just need to feed file.fo to FOP to
generate file.pdf
Is there any simple way to convert file.xml to file.fo ??
Is there any tool that does this job or do I need to write my own Java
parser for converting file.xml to file.fo
Please advise me.
Regards,
Anil
From: Amit Bhatnagar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: RE: Best XSL-FO WYSIWYG editor
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 10:02:51 -0800
Thanks for your reply.
How do you find Stylus Studio does for layout preparation? Does
it let you see the FO capabilities on screen without having to
process it via FOP into PDF?
The feeling that I got from it is that it is great for going to
HTML but the only FO support it had was being able to plug in
FOP and create PDF.
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From: Johan Åbrandt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: December 1, 2002 11:44 PM
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Subject: Re: Best XSL-FO WYSIWYG editor
Ok, then I would really encourage you to look into Excelon Stylus
Studio, I use it for exactly the scenario you describe, and it has
served me well. It has FOP built in, and all that is needed for a
complete xml-xslt-fop-PDF generation is the click of a button.
Amit Bhatnagar wrote:
I dont fully understand the description of the features you
need, but if being able to use one IDE to do the full flow
from xml through xsl to fop and pdf in an effortless way,
including the possibility to debug xsl transformations, then
Excelon Stylus Studio is my candidate. It is however not WYSIWYG
- if you by that mean that you would specify a xml file and then
do WYSIWYG editing and have the editor generate the xsl stylesheet
for you.
Let me explain my situation a bit better.
I have an application that generates a massive ammount of
data dyanmically
and stores it in an XML file. What I want to do is make PDF quality
reports / forms out of this data. To do this I want to
create an XSLT
file that will generate an XSL-FO marked up version of the XML which
FOP can gobble up and gimme a PDF.
Since this all has to happen during -runtime- of my
application, I am not
looking for an IDE / end to end solution; ie: the XSLT file is only
deployed with my app (XML is generated)
So... I am looking for a WYSIWYG tool that can assist me
in making
a layout of my report and generates the XSLT file that will produce
the XSL-FO markup. This means that I -need- the generated
XSLT file.
Most applications that I have looked at (ie: XSLFast) don't
give you
access to the XSLT (in fact I am pretty sure that it doesn't even
generate it at all - I only see a binary file that it produces).
I'm not expecting an XSL-FO application to solve all of my
problems..
I am expecting to have to make modifications by hand to the
XSLT file.
But I thought it would save plety of time if I had a tool that can
let me visualize the output.
My alternative is to whip out a reference and start writing the
entire XSLT by hand using the FO vocabulary.
Thanks for your help.
amit.
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