RE: Some Resources (was Re: newbie help on error message)

2003-04-29 Thread Victor Mote
Clay Leeds wrote: While we're on the subject of books and resources for FOP Resources, here's a couple things to add. One of my previous posts included a list of good books on XSL-FO (some of which you've listed). Here's a link to my post.

Some Resources (was Re: newbie help on error message)

2003-04-28 Thread Clay Leeds
Victor, While we're on the subject of books and resources for FOP Resources, here's a couple things to add. One of my previous posts included a list of good books on XSL-FO (some of which you've listed). Here's a link to my post. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-userm=104463666315238w=2

Re: newbie help on error message

2003-04-27 Thread J.Pietschmann
Victor Mote wrote: BTW, I think it is good to learn new technology on the job. In fact, having a real-world problem is about the only way I can learn anything. However, you do want to have your books at hand as you do it, which is probably what you meant anyway. I meant: It is bad to be thrown at

RE: newbie help on error message

2003-04-26 Thread Victor Mote
J.Pietschmann wrote: Buy Mike Kay's book on XSLT (ISBN 1861005067) and perhaps D.Pawsons book about XSLFO (ISBN 0596003552) and work through the examples. It is usually unwise to learn a new technology on the job. Victor: as usual, something for the ressources page? Good idea -- I just

RE: newbie help on error message

2003-04-26 Thread Victor Mote
Victor Mote wrote: Good idea -- I just committed a change that has both of these. I also added the O'Reilly book XSLT Cookbook, for which I have seen some good reviews. I hadn't heard about that one until this week. I hope to publish the web site this weekend. Sorry. I meant to throw the

RE: newbie help on error message

2003-04-26 Thread Victor Mote
Eric Pement wrote: So I no longer get the error message. However, the content of the fo:blocks is now empty, and whatever is in the Title tags is being ignored and not printed in the output document. All Xalan did was to confirm that nothing is printed in the output. Problem is, it didn't

RE: newbie help on error message

2003-04-25 Thread Victor Mote
Eric Pement wrote: file and I'm at a novice level in all of this. So I'd like to build the .XSL file incrementally, seeing if I can print single tags from the .XML file, and then successively adding tags until I have a generalized solution that will work on whatever .XML file we feed it which

Re: newbie help on error message

2003-04-25 Thread J.Pietschmann
Eric Pement wrote: Right now, I'm getting an error message, fo:flow must contain block-level children, which I don't know what to do with. It means exactly what it says. fo:flow flow-name=xsl-region-body xsl:apply-templates select=Title / /fo:flow . . . xsl:template match=[EMAIL

RE: newbie help on error message

2003-04-25 Thread Eric Pement
At 12:25 PM 4/25/2003 -0600, Victor Mote wrote: Eric Pement wrote: Right now, I'm getting an error message, fo:flow must contain block-level children, which I've fixed the error message, by changing fo:flow flow-name=xsl-region-body xsl:apply-templates select=Title / /fo:flow

Re: newbie help on error message

2003-04-25 Thread J.Pietschmann
Eric Pement wrote: So I no longer get the error message. However, the content of the fo:blocks is now empty, and whatever is in the Title tags is being ignored and not printed in the output document. All Xalan did was to confirm that nothing is printed in the output. Problem is, it didn't tell me