Re: FO preprocessor
Mike Haarman <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.text.xml.xsl.general |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 [email protected] wrote: > > I'm writing some kind of "merge" preprocessor for a FO > document. If I understand your requirements, I am wondering why. XSLT is the canonical preprocessor for FO. These requirements are routinely fulfilled by wrapping your query results in XML and incorporating them into a static instance describing the structure of the report via XSLT and the document function. > Sometimes it is desirable to generate non-merged documents > so I might write a FOP extension to cope with mrg tags. Again, a next to trivial application of XSLT. > Question would be: experienced FO guys would say that this > is a good approach? It might be a useful exercise for the student, but for a production system a standard application of the tools solves these problems. > > *jordi ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Haarman [email protected]