it would been cool to have used the DTD (a suitable subset anyway) for http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt, that way the potential is pretty much limitless.
The downside is that you'd have to use another tool to actually produce the final document form. The upside that the iText XML-API can be easily extended to take advantage of other work based on XSLT Cheers. -----Original Message----- From: Bruno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 2:23 AM To: Leonard Rosenthol Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [iText-questions] Re: Extending the XML handling stuff... Quoting Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm looking at extending the XML handling features to handle some new > tags, specifically for PDF generation - but as the architecture is > built around a class hierarchy for generic output, I'm at a loss to > find a good way to do this. Originally I was thinking of moving to a specific DTD such as DocBook, but there were just too many objects in DocBook. I didn't have the time. Then I thought it would be nice to build a PDF output module for JDOM... It's a pity I ended up making an iText DTD (that hasn't been updated in a long time). > Basically, I'd like to add support for things such as "import" (bring > in a page from an existing document) and some simple vector graphics > commands. Isn't there an XML DTD for Vector Graphics? Maybe it would be possible to do what others have done with Graphics2D? As for importing a page from an existing document. I would use processing instructions for that ( <? ?> ) instead of tags. > Any thoughts on how best to accomplish this - or am I just better off > forgetting about the current XML parsing/handling architecture and > just doing my own XML handlers sitting directly on top of iText?!? I want to work on that if I don't have to do it on my own... I may have some time in August. br, Bruno ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
