Re: Some questions on tweaking the stylesheet

Mahitha B. wrote:
>
> We use XML Mind to build our outputs in XXX. I have some questions
> on tweaking the stylesheet.

I'm sorry but we definitely don't help our customers to tweak their XSLT 
stylesheets. This would be a (expensive) service. We don't sell a 
service, we sell a (reasonably priced) software product.

Here's what we do for our own stylesheets (which are large and complex 
and nevertheless, work the same whatever the XSL-FO processor):

1) Pass a $fo-processor parameter (value FOP, XEP, AHF or our own XFC) 
to the XSLT stylesheet in order to implement things which depend on the 
XSL-FO processor being used. This kind of XSL-FO processor dependent 
code is generally quite tiny.

2) Stick to the XSL-FO standard 1.0 (I mean, not 1.1).

http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/

3) Do not use any of the advanced features of XSL-FO.

4) When you find something which seems wrong with our product, refer to 
"XMLmind XSL-FO Converter Conformance Statement" because it's almost 
certainly a documented limitation.

http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/conformance.html

5) When really needed to, use an extension to XSL-FO. Ours are 
documented here:

http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/_distrib/doc/user/implementation.html

6) Test your XSLT stylesheet with several XSL-FO processors (e.g. XFC 
and XEP). This helps finding problems with the XSL-FO you generate.

Other than this, you are on your own.



> Is this the correct email address where we
> can raise these questions?

Which mailing-list to use is explained here:

http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/support.html
 
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