RE: breaking paragraphs and lines

2002-11-06 Thread Stephen Haberman
Processing xml as text is kinda dangerous, especially when you are trying to fiddle with tags, I believe a better and more safe way is to handle \n\n stuff one stage earlier - during fo generation, that's pretty simple in xslt to tokenize string into blocks by any delimiter, trivial recursive

RE: Quark workflow

2002-11-06 Thread Stephan Wiesner
A better way would probably be to transform QuarkXML to DocBook. There is a wide support for DocBook to PDF conversion and we all read somewhere how easy it is to transform one XML format into another :-) Framemaker actually can work with DocBook, though I have not tried it out. Stephan

Re: Root element must be root, not (none):glossary

2002-11-06 Thread Deon van der Merwe
Hi, On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, J.Pietschmann wrote: Deon van der Merwe wrote: org.apache.fop.apps.FOPException: Root element must be root, not (none):glossary at org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder.startElement(Unknown Source) at

Showing FO output

2002-11-06 Thread Leif Frederiksen
In order to debug some code, I would like to see the result of the XML+XSLT tranformation, not the result of the rendering. Can I make FOP do this? Leif Frederiksen

Re: incrementing variable

2002-11-06 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Phil Dickinson wrote: John is right about not being able to change variables and I think that in order to achieve the effect you want, you should consider using some Java code inside your XSL. Well, extensions are especially good as last resort, but incrementing variables in a side effect free

Re: Showing FO output

2002-11-06 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Leif Frederiksen wrote: In order to debug some code, I would like to see the result of the XML+XSLT tranformation, not the result of the rendering. Can I make FOP do this? Actually FOP processes exactly xsl-fo, not xml+xslt, so what you need is not FOP, but usual xslt processor. -- Oleg

Re: Showing FO output

2002-11-06 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Leif Frederiksen wrote: In order to debug some code, I would like to see the result of the XML+XSLT tranformation, not the result of the rendering. Can I make FOP do this? btw, I was thinking about implementing such a functionality (view fo source) in FOP's awt viewer, but I was not sure anybody

RE: Showing FO output

2002-11-06 Thread Leif Frederiksen
I think it would be great to have an option to output fo source directly from fop. That way users would not have to script wrap both fop and xalan. Leif Frederiksen -Original Message- From: Oleg Tkachenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 6. november 2002 13:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: incrementing variable

2002-11-06 Thread xavier gibouin
As my xml file is before traited by a java program in odrer generate other tag. This one will completely generate tag for creating barrecode so before : xml file : barrcecode012341223/barrcode but impossible to realise the svg barrce code after : xml fil after transformation by java

line before footnote area

2002-11-06 Thread Marko Petersen
Hi, I am trying to add a line between the main-reference-area and the footnote-reference-area. Has anybody an idea how to do this? Greetings, Marko

Re: Showing FO output

2002-11-06 Thread robert_hitchins
I think having the ability to view the FO source would be both very helpful for debugging and also great for learning what is going on. My $0.02 Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 7:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to show PDF file in jsp page II.

2002-11-06 Thread Jiri_Nejedly
I tried it , it works, but I have one great suspicion: Will it work even on remote server ? response.sendRedirect(outPDF); // outPDF is C:/Program Files/Apache Tomcat 4.0/Fop/TMP.PDF I have Tomcat and browser on one PC . Doesn't the browser thus open the PDF file directly, bypassing

Re: How to show PDF file in jsp page II.

2002-11-06 Thread Marko Petersen
Hi, your PDF file has to be accessible for tomcat, for example: Imagine your web application is stored under %TOMCAT_ROOT%/webapps/yourapp Then your PDF file has to be somewhere in your 'yourapp' directory. It is the same as html pages: you referene them (e.g. in html) with a href=foo.html -

Re: How to show PDF file in jsp page II.

2002-11-06 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried it , it works, but I have one great suspicion: Will it work even on remote server ? Why not? Just make sure you save it in a place browser has access to. -- Oleg Tkachenko eXperanto team Multiconn Technologies, Israel

Losing Browser Session when Acrobat Plugin fails

2002-11-06 Thread McDonald, Jonathan
Here's my problem, Scenario I'm trying to send a PDF document, which has been rendered with FOP back to the client through ServletOutputStream. I'm generating a set of XML files that I then render into a PDF document and store the document onto the file system. I then read in the file as a

Re: line before footnote area

2002-11-06 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Marko Petersen wrote: I am trying to add a line between the main-reference-area and the footnote-reference-area. Has anybody an idea how to do this? Well, you certanly know what the first footnote body is, so you can just add block with an rule leader at the beginning. See Dave Pawson's example:

Re: Losing Browser Session when Acrobat Plugin fails

2002-11-06 Thread Marko Petersen
Hi, maybe you should call your servlet with the option target=blank, for example: a href=/MyServlet target=_blankPDF/a This causes your Servlet output to appear in a new browser window - the old one is still there and should have the valid session. This only helps to hold the session, I think your

Re: line before footnote area

2002-11-06 Thread Marko Petersen
Yes, I know the first footnote body of the document, but I have to know each footnote body, which is the first displayed on one page. This one should have a line above, the others at the same page should not. Is there a way to get this node? Thanks, Marko At 18:18 06.11.2002 +0200, you wrote:

HTML+CSS - XSL:FO

2002-11-06 Thread Alex McLintock
Sorry for asking a question which I know is already in my FAQ but I have a colleague who needs to render HTML *with* CSS to PDF. I am wondering whether we have anything like a web browser which outputs XSL:FO yet. Does anyone use one? My instant reaction is to say convert to XML instead of

RE: Quark workflow

2002-11-06 Thread Joel Gwynn
So, to continue down this winding road a little further ... Quark seems to produce three documents: a css, dtd, and xml. The goal is to produce an xsl file that can transform the xml to xsl-fo. Should I be writing a script that takes that dtd and css and produces an xsl file? Would it be

Re: HTML+CSS - XSL:FO

2002-11-06 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 18:31, Alex McLintock wrote: Sorry for asking a question which I know is already in my FAQ but I have a colleague who needs to render HTML *with* CSS to PDF. I hope this is not the FAQ answer ;-) Assuming client-side is ok (or you want to try to automate these

Re: Quark workflow

2002-11-06 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Joel Gwynn wrote: So, to continue down this winding road a little further ... Quark seems to produce three documents: a css, dtd, and xml. What are in them? The goal is to produce an xsl file that can transform the xml to xsl-fo. Should I be writing a script that takes that dtd and css and

RE: Quark workflow

2002-11-06 Thread Joel Gwynn
-Original Message- From: Oleg Tkachenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Quark workflow Joel Gwynn wrote: So, to continue down this winding road a little further ... Quark seems to produce three

Re: incrementing variable

2002-11-06 Thread J.Pietschmann
xavier gibouin wrote: As my xml file is before traited by a java program in odrer generate other tag. This one will completely generate tag for creating barrecode so If you want to generate SVG barcodes, why don't you use the barcode XSL form RenderX? http://www.renderx.com/barcodes.html

Re: Quark workflow

2002-11-06 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Joel Gwynn wrote: Well, since you asked ... I uploaded the files to my server for perusal, just in case you're interested. These are the files from the quark.avenue tutorial. http://joelman.com/avenue-xml/ Well that's not a bad format, xml + css, but unfortunaly css in not xml hence one can say

Repeating table headers accross pages

2002-11-06 Thread Evraire, Jonathan
Hi, how would I get table headers to repeat across pages using FOP? Thanks! Jonathan Evraire jonevrai at justice.gc.ca

RE: Repeating table headers accross pages

2002-11-06 Thread Koes, Derrick
Set table attribute table-omit-header-at-break=false. -Original Message- From: Evraire, Jonathan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 1:55 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Repeating table headers accross pages Hi, how would I get table headers to repeat

Re: line before footnote area

2002-11-06 Thread J.Pietschmann
Marko Petersen wrote: I am trying to add a line between the main-reference-area and the footnote-reference-area. Has anybody an idea how to do this? The spec provides a special region named xsl-footnote-separator for this purpose, you could put a leader in it: fo:static-content

Re: Showing FO output

2002-11-06 Thread J.Pietschmann
Jeremias Maerki wrote: I'm going a step further and I'm thinking about providing a development tool for FOP. I'm looking forward to this. For the subject at hand, however, I think a fop -xml foo.xml -xsl foo.xsl -fo foo.fo would do, and I hope I can get this even in the next maintenance release.

Re: Showing FO output

2002-11-06 Thread clholm
I am often generating .fo files with XML::Sablotron, and find it very useful to examine the source when things are not going as expected. -Carl Holm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think having the ability to view the FO source would be both very helpful for debugging and also great for learning