Generating output from XML was Re: Clueless Newbie is lost!

2002-02-08 Thread ewitness - Ben Fowler
>Thierry, >I guess I am so new to this that I don't >know what you mean by formatting? I thought >that XML was formatless (if that is a word), in that >the DTD and the style sheets did all the formatting? Not the DTD (which is optional for XML), and provides constraints for an xml file. Yes, a

DocBook XML->FO, getting started was Re: Clueless Newbie is lost!

2002-02-08 Thread ewitness - Ben Fowler
Assuming you really are a 'Newbie', you will profit from reading the famous 'Choosing good subject lines' post, archived here http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/authors/Dean_Roehrich/subjects.post >, and won't be offended by my pointing you to it. Assuming you really are Clueless (which is an insult

Re: Clueless Newbie is lost!

2002-01-29 Thread Matt Savino
The general path is to convert XML->FO via XSLT, then run FOP on the FO file. FO is XML, but it contains much more than just the data, so it ends up looking more like HTML. See the FOP examples. Hope I'm interpreting the problem right! -Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thierry, > I guess I am

Re: Clueless Newbie is lost!

2002-01-29 Thread ttg
Thierry, I guess I am so new to this that I don't know what you mean by formatting? I thought that XML was formatless (if that is a word), in that the DTD and the style sheets did all the formatting? This is just about the most simple example I could come up with that would render *something* in

Re: Clueless Newbie is lost!

2002-01-29 Thread Thierry Gounelle
Hi tim, I don't see any formating code in your post, just an xml source file. Could you be more precise. thierry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Folks, > I am writing a textbook on HTML, and want to > include a chapter on XML. I am trying to get the > following code (DocBook) to generate a PDF file

Clueless Newbie is lost!

2002-01-25 Thread ttg
Folks, I am writing a textbook on HTML, and want to include a chapter on XML. I am trying to get the following code (DocBook) to generate a PDF file. After a LONG struggle I managed to xsltproc to use my XML and get the HTML to render...but the PDF eludes me. Can y'all see anything wrong with