Bear in mind that, when you put HTML tags into XML source files, those tags aren't HTML tags. They are XML elements, same as everything else in the document. By coincidence, they happen to have the same names as some HTML tags. In other words, HTML tags are just like other elements until an HTML parser gets them.
Consequently, you can write templates to handle these source elements just as you would any other source elements. For FO output, those three could be: <xsl:template match="br"> <fo:block/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="i"> <fo:inline font-style="italic"><xsl:apply-templates/></fo:inline> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="b"> <fo:inline font-weight="bold"><xsl:apply-templates/></fo:inline> </xsl:template> Note: You should use apply-templates rather than value-of for situations like this because you may get another embedded element within the current element, as in <b><i>Some Text</i></b> For HTML output, you can use copy-of, thus: <xsl:templmate match="br"> <xsl:copy-of select="."/> </xsl:template> <xsl:templmate match="i"> <xsl:copy-of select="."/> </xsl:template> <xsl:templmate match="b"> <xsl:copy-of select="."/> </xsl:template> Personally, I generally use one XML file and two XSL files (one for PDF and one for HTML). (In one weird case, I had eight XSL files against one DTD, but it's usually just two.) Jay Bryant Bryant Communication Services (presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies) Vojko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/07/2005 07:49 AM Please respond to fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org To "fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org" <fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org> cc Subject Spam:HTML tags in XML with XSL-FO Hi I have one XML for generating HTML with XSL and for generating PDF with XSL-FO. What would be the easiest and most convenient way to have HTML tags such as <br>, <b> or <i> inside XML and still could pars it to PDF with XSL-FO. The end result would have to be the same. In HTML and PDF...something in bold, italic...or what ever I defined with HTML tag in XML. Is this the right way to do it anyway? Regards, V. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
