Someone wrote: >Can anyone help me in knowing that why XSL cannot be >written to translate the xml to PDF. >Why XSL FO is the approach to create the PDF.
Golly, you *are* persistent. XSLFO processors have the task to layout your text structure as described by XSL FOs onto pages. That's a much more complex task than most people are aware of. >Now anyone kindly tell me Can I write xsl's to create >my xmls directly to PDF 1.1 or higher. You can, at least in principle. Get the PDF spec http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/docs/PDFRef.pdf and go ahead. Be warned: it's no fun at all unless you're actually trying to achieve something very simple (fixed width fonts, page and font sizes known in advance etc.) It's likely to be messy in XSL even then. You won't get *any* help from either this or the XSL list on PDF specific questions. You may look at the FOP sources or at a TEX-distribution (http://www.tug.org) to get an impression what difficulties you might encounter. HTH Joerg Pietschmann --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
