That looks like a much more promising "avenue". Thanks a lot! Joel Gwynn Variable Data Spire 617 832-1957
> -----Original Message----- > From: Oleg Tkachenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 1:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Quark workflow > > > Joel Gwynn wrote: > > > Well, since you asked ... I uploaded the files to my server for > > perusal, just in case you're interested. These are the > files from the > > quark.avenue tutorial. http://joelman.com/avenue-xml/ > > Well that's not a bad format, xml + css, but unfortunaly css > in not xml hence > one can say it's browser oriented format. If you want to > process it by xslt > the main burden is css parsing. I developed such stuff > recently, but that was > for a commercial project and I cannot share the code. The > main idea is to > write URIResolver, which reads css file, parses it somehow, > e.g. using w3c's > SAC (Simple API for CSS) and represents css in xml format, > e.g. each selector > is element and each propery is its attribute. Then you can use such > URIResolver from within xsl stylesheet and generate xsl-fo > attributes from css > properties (they happily almost coincide). > I mean > xml > <head_L1>avenue.quark White Paper</head_L1> > > css > head_L1 { > font-size : 18pt; > font-family : Arial; > font-weight : Bold; > color : Blue; > background-color : Aqua; > display : block; > line-height : 40pt; > } > > xsl: > <xsl:template match="head_L1"> > <fo:block> > <xsl:copy-of > select="document('css:my-css-name')/head_L1/@*"/> > <xsl:apply-templates/> > </fo:block> > </xsl:template> > > result: > > <fo:block font-size="18pt" > font-family="Arial" > font-weight="Bold" > color="Blue" > background-color="Aqua" > display="block" > line-height="40pt"> > ...content... > </fo:block> > > It's feasible but requires a lot of careful work. I'd suggest > you to look > around for another quark export tool, which doesn't use css > but pure xml, that > would be big relief, e.g. google pointed out to http://www.attd.com. > > -- > Oleg Tkachenko > eXperanto team > Multiconn Technologies, Israel > >
