[Fwd: [Fwd: RE: Cocoon and PDF/HTML-Layout Tools Integration (for expl. QuarkXPress,... etc.)]]

That might be of interest to some of you, how
you can do "HTML-layouts" without having to know XSLT

Please see Con's answer below

Michael




-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: Cocoon and PDF/HTML-Layout Tools Integration (for expl.
QuarkXPress,... etc.)
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 21:10:37 +1200
From: "Conal Tuohy" <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: <[email protected]>

  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: massimo [mailto:[email protected]]
  > Subject: Cocoon and PDF/HTML-Layout Tools Integration (for expl.
  > QuarkXPress,... etc.)

  > Does someone have made already some experience whit the
  > integration of
  > PDF/HTML-Layout tools?
  > or are there other possible ways to go?

Hi Massimo.

I've not used any visual XSLT design tools, though I've heard of them.

But I have used an approach in Cocoon where your layout is done in html
(using any html editor - we used DreamWeaver). In the template HTML, you add
a few extra attributes to refer to the data (the content of the page), e.g.
<span template:for-each="breadcrumb">. You can also use
attribute-value-templates in your html, and variable-substitution in the
text of the html, like this:

<table>
	<tr for-each="topic">
		<td>{topic-name}</td><td>{topic-value}</td>
	</tr>
</table>

You can use the HTMLGenerator to convert the HTML layout to XHTML, transform
it into valid XSLT, and you have a XSLT stylesheet without too much XSLT,
written in a generic HTML editor, with a few extra "custom" attributes etc
(not usually a problem).

Cheers!

Con


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