On 27.09.2006 13:15:34 Glen Mazza wrote:
> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>
> >I need to create PDF from the information contained in some Java objects.
> >The
> >standard way to do this according to the FOP docs, is to create XML from the
> >objects, then transform to XSL-FO using XSLT.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Yes. Learning XSLT (like Ant) is Time Very Well Spent.
>
> >But since there are FO DOM nodes internally in FOP, it seems to me to be a
> >natural alternative to create these nodes directly instead of going via XML
> >+
> >XSLT.
> >
> >
>
> I placed in such an example a few years back into our
> {fop-dist}/examples/ directory, back in my ultra-newbie days. It's
> quite hideous, but here it is: [1]. (Unfortunately, with the switch of
> FOP's repository from CVS to SVN, we apparently have lost this deleted
> file, but it remains in our CVS mailing list archives.)
It's still there:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/examples/embedding/java/embedding/ExampleDOM2PDF.java?view=markup
But I do not recommend this approach.
> [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-cvs&m=106081657102191&w=2
>
> >Is this possible, and how would I go about processing the tree?
> >
> >
> >
>
> See above, but really look at these examples[2] for the XSLT & SAX-based
> way of processing. This will prove much easier for you.
>
> [2]
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/examples/embedding/java/embedding/
>
> Glen
Jeremias Maerki
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