ok, here's what ya want to do. when you perform a xalan xslt transform, you can specify a SaxResult as the output object. When you instantiate the SaxResult object, you pass a ContentHandler object to the constructor. Ok, so the question is, what does this have to do with you.
fop's transformation engine is sax driven. we are given access to the underlying transformation engine, a SAX ContentHandler by calling getContentHandler() on the Driver object. We then pass the return value to the SAXResult constructor. the nice thing about doing it this way, is that as xalan transforms the xsl, it fires SAX events right into fop. therefore, it's essentially generating fop's output (pdf for example) at the same time the xml is transformed in xsl:fo by an xslt stylesheet. the line of code from my app looks like this: ... transformer.transform( new DOMSource( doc ), new SAXResult( driver.getContentHandler() )); ... also, by doing this, you do not need to pass any document or inputsource or even call render(), because it all done once the transform finishes. lemme know if you need an example. -- David B. Bitton [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.codenoevil.com Code Made Fresh DailyT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Juergen Lippold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ">" < <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 4:22 AM Subject: embedded FOP from Document to PDF Hello, I have no Problems reading the XML and the XSL-file and directly generating the PDF-output. That works fine. But in my application I'm filling the XMl-file, writing it to the harddisk and then starting the FOP-conversion. It would be nice to start the conversion directly with the org.w3c.dom.Document in memory and the XSL-File from harddisk. Does someone knows if this is possible with FOP? Thanks for Help. Regards Juergen Lippold --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
