Newbie - Dynamic data in .fo file

2002-05-28 Thread Vikram Goyal01 
Hi all,

I need to pick data for my .fo file from another xml. How do I do this? Do I 
need to transform it again?
I have searched the mailing list but cant seem to find the answer (maybe using 
wrong keywords, dynamic data ??).

BTW,
Why is there no fop user mailing list at mail-archive? Its search engine seems 
far better than the one at MARC.

TIA,
Vikram

Re: Newbie - Dynamic data in .fo file

2002-05-28 Thread Denis Thierry 



Hi,

Did you try something like document('urltoyourxmlfile') in 
your fo file? This should insert your xml doc into your fo file ...

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  Vikram Goyal01 
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  Hi all,I need to pick data for my .fo file from another 
  xml. How do I do this? Do I need to transform it again?I have searched the 
  mailing list but cant seem to find the answer (maybe using wrong keywords, 
  dynamic data ??).BTW,Why is there no fop user mailing list at 
  mail-archive? Its search engine seems far better than the one at 
  MARC.TIA,Vikram

Re: Newbie - Dynamic data in .fo file

2002-05-28 Thread Jeremias Maerki 
You can improve the use of the document() function if you do something
like that: 

document('urltoyourxmlfile')/mystuff/entry[position() = 3]/text

which basically means that you can append an XPath statement to further
restrict the content to be included. I use this to include language
dependant textblocks. If you wrap the result using node-set() function
(See Xalan documentation) you can even apply templates from your
stylesheet to it.

 Thanks for your reply. The problem is that I need to replace certain place 
 holders in my .fo file with corresponding tags in the xml file. I dont need 
 to dump the whole xml file in the fo file. For eg:
 To: replace with Client Name
  
 is in the fo file, and the client name is in the xml file as a tag.

Cheers,
Jeremias Märki

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Re: Newbie - Dynamic data in .fo file

2002-05-28 Thread J.Pietschmann 
Jeremias Maerki wrote:
document('urltoyourxmlfile')/mystuff/entry[position() = 3]/text
...
If you wrap the result using node-set() function
(See Xalan documentation) you can even apply templates from your
stylesheet to it.
No need for doing this:
 xsl:apply-templates select=document('urltoyourxmlfile'
   )/mystuff/entry[position() = 3]/text/
works.
You can even do
 xsl:variable name=mystuff select=document('urltoyourxmlfile')/mystuff/
 ...
  xsl:value-of select=$mystuff/entry[position() = 3]/text/
or whatever. Using keys to select stuff from $mystuff is
a bit trickier.
Questions about details should be sent to the XSL list
  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/
J.Pietschmann