Re: xsl:fo rendering

At 2002-10-16 11:27 +0100, [email protected] wrote:
>I started off with an example ..

Your example has some missing and incorrectly specified properties for the 
page masters.

>My questions are as follows:
>1.How do we write the XSL to produce the above XSL:FO file? I am quite ok 
>with
>writing xsl style sheets

Perhaps you have been using HTML until now?

>but do not know how to write xsl to produce xsl:fo..
>Please assume that i know nothing about xsl:fo.

Then all you have to learn is the XSL-FO vocabulary so that when you write 
your stylesheet you use that vocabulary instead of HTML.  We have a free 
download preview of our electronic book we sell on our web site that will 
both give you an introduction and has a hyperlinked cross reference in the 
annex for the objects and properties that is useful in its own right:

   Practical Formatting Using XSL-FO
   (Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects)
   Third Edition - 2002-09-05 - ISBN 1-894049-10-1
   Copyright (c) 2002 Crane Softwrights Ltd.
   / 396 Pages / Subscription price includes free updates,
   /           / soft-copy of included examples, and an
   /           / accessible rendition and 10 PDF renditions.
   /           / Free 206-page download preview excerpt.

The same skills you have for HTML apply when using any output vocabulary.

An example is below with repaired properties ... I hope this helps.

............... Ken

T:\ftemp>type subbu.xml
<doc>
<para>Hello world!</para>
<para>This is a test</para>
</doc>

T:\ftemp>type subbu.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                 xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
                 version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="/">
<fo:root>
   <fo:layout-master-set>
     <fo:simple-page-master master-name="my-page">
       <fo:region-body  margin="1in"></fo:region-body>
     </fo:simple-page-master>
   </fo:layout-master-set>
   <fo:page-sequence master-reference="my-page">
     <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
       <xsl:apply-templates/>
     </fo:flow>
   </fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="para">
   <fo:block><xsl:apply-templates/></fo:block>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

T:\ftemp>


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