Intermediate Format (IF) with placeholder / marker

[Adam Kovacs]

Hi there,

 I would need an XML element from any namespace which I can use in the XSL and 
is not interpreted by FOP and goes into the Intermediate Format (IF) output as 
it is.
I want to use this element as placeholder in the FOP_IF, and in a second step I 
can modify the FOP Intermediate File for my needs.

Is there an element I could use?
If not how can I make a new FOP Extension which does this?

Any other suggestion how to do this are very welcome!!!

Thanks in advance!

Greetings,

Adam

Using FOP Trunk

Re: Intermediate Format (IF) with placeholder / marker

[Craig Ringer]

On 13/07/10 19:01, Adam Kovacs wrote:
 Hi there,
 
  I would need an XML element from any namespace which I can use in the XSL 
 and is not interpreted by FOP and goes into the Intermediate Format (IF) 
 output as it is.
 I want to use this element as placeholder in the FOP_IF, and in a second step 
 I can modify the FOP Intermediate File for my needs.

I've been doing this using the area tree (AT) output format, using named
blocks as suggested already.

It seems to me like the IF is much less useful for modifying before
output, because it doesn't seem to preserve identifiers, and omits quite
a bit of information you might want. In my case I found that there was
no XML level way to tell what blocks were contained in which columns of
a multi-column flow; I'd have to do it with geometry using the IF. In
the AT output, it's obvious from the XML nesting - each column is a
flow within a span for the page's content.

So... consider using the area tree output instead. It might be a better
fit for your needs.

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Craig Ringer