html output format

[Dmitri Colebatch]

Hey all,

I've spent a couple of hours searching for this with no luck, so feel
justified in asking here now.  If this is a really stupid question (read my
post first), feel free to point it out (o:

I have a requirement to edit a document, and then print it.  The requirement
had been just to print the document, with some basic merge functionality -
so I implemented that using FOP for the printing side of it.  Now that I
need to edit it, my thought had been that I'd just go

FOP - html - ekit (html editor) - html - html2fo - FOP - PCL

long winded, but seems reasonable, basically all I'd have to do is some
plumbing.  Now, my question for the list is about going from FOP - html.  I
cant believe there isn't a standard html output or xsl stylesheet.  Most of
my searching has come up with answers along the lines of it'd be better to
take the initial xml that you use for generating the .fo and applying XSL to
that to make html that way.  However, I dont have any initial xml, and
besides, I dont see why the document shouldn't be stored in FOP (I need to
save the lf as well as the data).

So, is there somewhere I can find a simple straight forward html output, or
even just a stylesheet?  I'm convinced it must already exist.

Look forward to any suggestions/answers.  Please cc me as I'm subscribed in
digest mode.

cheers
dim

ps - putting 'html' in a search criteria on the web is almost pointless (o:


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Re: html output format

[Dmitri Colebatch]

From: Oleg Tkachenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Dmitri Colebatch wrote:

  I have a requirement to edit a document, and then print it.  The
requirement
  had been just to print the document, with some basic merge
functionality -
  so I implemented that using FOP for the printing side of it.  Now that I
  need to edit it, my thought had been that I'd just go
 
  FOP - html - ekit (html editor) - html - html2fo - FOP - PCL
 
  long winded, but seems reasonable,
 I don't think it's reasonable, much better would be
 XSLT-XHTML-edit-XHTML-XHTML2FO-FOP-PCL

Can anyone suggest an XHTML editor?  ekit (which is what I've identified as
an editor) doesn't (afaik) support outputting as XHTML.

  plumbing.  Now, my question for the list is about going from FOP -
html.
 You don't need FOP to get html, just use your favorite XSLT processor.

yes, an XSLT processor _and_ a stylesheet.  That is what I was asking for.
I could certainly go and implement whatever parts of a stylesheet that are
required for the minimal usage of FOP's instructions that I am using, but it
seems hard to believe that this requirement hasn't come up before, and
someone else out there hasn't done it.

cheers
dim


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