ANN: New editions of two books with free previews: XSLT/XPath and XSLFO (FOP-DEV)
We are pleased to announce the publication this week of new editions of two of our electronic book titles: Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath (XSL Transformations and the XML Path Language) Tenth Edition - 2001-12-06 - ISBN 1-894049-08-X Copyright (c) 2001 Crane Softwrights Ltd. / 394 Pages / Subscription price includes free updates, / / soft-copy of all included examples, and an / / accessible rendition and 10 PDF renditions. / / Free 140-page download preview excerpt. Practical Formatting Using XSLFO (Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects) First Edition - 2001-12-05 - ISBN 1-894049-07-1 Copyright (c) 2001 Crane Softwrights Ltd. / 341 Pages / Subscription price includes free updates, / / soft-copy of all included examples, and an / / accessible rendition and 10 PDF renditions. / / Free 179-page download preview excerpt. The free previews and purchasing information are linked through the topmost link named "Book Sales" on our home page noted below. We have tried to inform our existing customers of their free updates, but *many* email addresses are now being rejected. If you are entitled to your free update and have not yet heard from us, please contact us to request the password. Remember that the purchase of any edition of a book entitles you to *all* future editions of that same title at no charge (though buying one book does not entitle you to any other book), so you have to keep us informed of any email address changes to keep receiving your notices. Please note, however, that the purchase of any of our books that are published commercially in paper does *not* entitle you to the electronic copy or free electronic updates. Next week Prentice Hall are releasing "Definitive XSLT and XPath" ISBN 1-894049-06-3 which is a paper publication of an edited version of the Ninth Edition of our "Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath" In addition to the PDF renditions, we now include an accessible version of each of our books and the previews for the books. These renditions use monospaced fonts that are friendly to screen readers. These are produced using XSLFO using RenderX (previous editions were published using DSSSL) ... all our training material is authored in XML. The XSLT/XPath book has a new subsection on the grouping technique using variables (allowed me to do grouping using XT without using either axes or the key() function). Other sections have been updated over the last 11 months of feedback. The XSLFO book is in its first release. This book has hyperlinks from the text of the renditions directly to the W3C Recommendation document, allowing you to learn from our book yet have instant access to the W3C documents. Both editions have the following hyperlinks (note in Acrobat reader the ctrl-left arrow is the Back key): - page references in text - chapter references in module summary - section references in chapter summary - table of subsections at back of book - external links to web browser We continue to improve our publications with feedback from readers and students of instructor-led, real-time live audio over the Internet, and licensed deliveries by other training organizations who are using the material We look forward to your comments and feedback. Ken cc: XSL List XML-DEV XML-L XML-EDI XSLFO XSLFO-WWW xalan-dev fop-dev comp.text.xml microsoft.public.xml microsoft.public.xsl OASIS Members IDEA-ICC Members p.s. Remember - the "Book Sales" link at the very top of our home page noted below: -- Training Blitz: 3-days XSLT/XPath, 2-days XSLFO - Feb 18-22, 2002 G. Ken Holmanmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/f/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (Fax:-0995) XSL/XML/DSSSL/SGML/OmniMark services, books(electronic, printed), articles, training(instructor-live,Internet-live,web/CD,licensed) Next public training: 2001-12-09,12-19,12-20, -2002-01-08,01-10,02-18,02-21 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Numeric properties
Joerg, I must remember to trim. I must remember to trim. I must... Peter Peter B. West wrote: > Christopher, > > Many thanks. It's glaringly obvious, isn't it? Oh well. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Numeric properties
Christopher, Many thanks. It's glaringly obvious, isn't it? Oh well. Peter Christopher R. Maden wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >At 06:25 6-12-2001, Peter B. West wrote: > >>I don't know how kosher this is, and would appreciate any comments. I am >>also puzzled by the constraint in the spec (5.9.6 Absolute Numerics) that: >> >>In addition, only the mod, addition, and subtraction operators require >>that the numerics on either side of the operation be absolute numerics of >>the same unit power. For other operations, the unit powers may be >>different and the result should be mathematically consistent as with the >>handling of powers in algebra. >> >>As I read this, it means that, while I can divide a by a number, >>resulting in a of the same unit power, I cannot take the mod of a >> using a number. Can anyone explaing the reasons for this restriction? >> > >Modulo only makes sense when the quotient is an integer. When you divide >four inches by three, there isn't anything left over; you have three parts >of 4/3 inches each. But if you take three-inch pieces of four inches, you >have one inch left over. > >~Chris >- -- >Christopher R. Maden, Principal Consultant, HMM Consulting Int'l, Inc. >DTDs/schemas - conversion - ebooks - publishing - Web - B2B - training >http://www.hmmci.com/ > http://crism.maden.org/consulting/ > >PGP Fingerprint: BBA6 4085 DED0 E176 D6D4 5DFC AC52 F825 AFEC 58DA >-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- >Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 > >iQA/AwUBPA/ffKxS+CWv7FjaEQIycACgvX6WIK89d3IwFXPHttoY88RKEFgAn0sE >ZBNJfMtghi3TrqwYfQpWSw8r >=Dk6f >-END PGP SIGNATURE- > > >- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [PATCH] update FOP (maintenance branch) to REC syntax
Thanks! I added the patch to cvs. Tore > Hi, > > I finally managed to update FOP to REC syntax.. > > According to the documented changes at: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/sliceF.html#changes > http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/PR-xsl-20010828/sliceF.html#changes > > the biggest thing was the renaming of the "master-name" property to > "master-reference" on fo:page-sequence, fo:single-page-master-reference, > fo:repeatable-page-master-reference and > fo:conditional-page-master-reference. > > I've also updated all files in docs/examples, run the tests - and it looks > good :-) > > Next I will have a look a the test directory > > > Christian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvs commit: xml-fop/src/org/apache/fop/layout LineArea.java
tore01/12/06 13:28:22 Modified:.Tag: fop-0_20_2-maintain CHANGES docs/examples/advanced Tag: fop-0_20_2-maintain cid-fonts.fo giro.fo docs/examples/fo Tag: fop-0_20_2-maintain border.fo bordershorthand.fo character.fo corresprop.fo extensive.fo fonts.fo hyphen.fo images.fo inhprop.fo instream.fo leader.fo link.fo list.fo newlinktest.fo normal.fo normalex.fo pdfoutline.fo readme.fo simple.fo table.fo tableunits.fo textdeko.fo docs/examples/footnotes Tag: fop-0_20_2-maintain columns.fo simple.fo docs/examples/keeps_and_breaks Tag: fop-0_20_2-maintain columnlevel1.fo pagelevel1.fo pagelevel2.fo pagelevel3.fo pagelevel4.fo docs/examples/markers Tag: fop-0_20_2-maintain glossary.xsl hide.fo docs/examples/pagination Tag: fop-0_20_2-maintain allregions.fo basic1.fo basic2.fo franklin_2pageseqs.fo franklin_alt.fo franklin_rep.fo franklin_rep_max_repeats.fo franklin_rep_max_repeats_expl.fo franklin_rep_max_repeats_nl.fo docs/examples/region_body Tag: fop-0_20_2-maintain simplecol.fo simplecol2.fo simplecol3.fo simplecol4.fo docs/examples/svg Tag: fop-0_20_2-maintain embedding.fo external.fo docs/examples/tables Tag: fop-0_20_2-maintain background.fo borders.fo break.fo headfoot.fo keep.fo omit.fo space.fo widowsorphans.fo src/codegen Tag: fop-0_20_2-maintain foproperties.xml src/org/apache/fop/fo/expr Tag: fop-0_20_2-maintain PropertyParser.java src/org/apache/fop/fo/flow Tag: fop-0_20_2-maintain Block.java src/org/apache/fop/fo/pagination Tag: fop-0_20_2-maintain ConditionalPageMasterReference.java PageMasterReference.java PageSequence.java src/org/apache/fop/layout Tag: fop-0_20_2-maintain LineArea.java Log: Submitted by: Christian Geisert [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Changed "master-name" to "master-reference" on fo:page-sequence, fo:single-page-master-reference, fo:repeatable-page-master-reference and fo:conditional-page-master-reference to comply with the latest XSL recommendation. Also changed the unimplemented property space-treatment to white-space-treatment and updated examples to use the new syntax. Revision ChangesPath No revision No revision 1.10.2.3 +6 -0 xml-fop/CHANGES Index: CHANGES === RCS file: /home/cvs/xml-fop/CHANGES,v retrieving revision 1.10.2.2 retrieving revision 1.10.2.3 diff -u -r1.10.2.2 -r1.10.2.3 --- CHANGES 2001/12/04 06:49:32 1.10.2.2 +++ CHANGES 2001/12/06 21:28:18 1.10.2.3 @@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ remaining for content. (Karen Lease) *** Properties +- Changed "master-name" to "master-reference" on fo:page-sequence, + fo:single-page-master-reference, fo:repeatable-page-master-reference and + fo:conditional-page-master-reference to comply with the latest XSL recommendation. + Also changed the unimplemented property space-treatment to white-space-treatment and + updated examples to use the new syntax. + Submitted by: Christian Geisert [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] - Add support for inline-progression-dimension and table-layout. (Karen) - Add support for letter-spacing. Submitted by: Raymond Penners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No revision No revision 1.2.2.1 +1 -1 xml-fop/docs/examples/advanced/cid-fonts.fo Index: cid-fonts.fo === RCS file: /home/cvs/xml-fop/docs/examples/advanced/cid-fonts.fo,v retrieving revision 1.2 retrieving revision 1.2.2.1 diff -u -r1.2 -r1.2.2.1 --- cid-fonts.fo 2001/05/18 09:55:46 1.2 +++ cid-fonts.fo 2001/12/06 21:28:18 1.2.2.1 @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ - + 1.1.2.1 +5 -5 xml-fop/docs/examples/advanced/giro.fo Index: giro.fo === RCS file: /home/cvs/xml-fop/docs/examples/advanced/giro.fo,v retrieving revision 1.1 retrieving revision 1.1.2.1 diff -u -r1.1 -r1.1.2.1 --- giro.fo 2001/03/04 18:00:38 1.1 +++ giro.fo 2001/12/06 21:2
Re: Numeric properties
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 06:25 6-12-2001, Peter B. West wrote: >I don't know how kosher this is, and would appreciate any comments. I am >also puzzled by the constraint in the spec (5.9.6 Absolute Numerics) that: > >In addition, only the mod, addition, and subtraction operators require >that the numerics on either side of the operation be absolute numerics of >the same unit power. For other operations, the unit powers may be >different and the result should be mathematically consistent as with the >handling of powers in algebra. > >As I read this, it means that, while I can divide a by a number, >resulting in a of the same unit power, I cannot take the mod of a > using a number. Can anyone explaing the reasons for this restriction? Modulo only makes sense when the quotient is an integer. When you divide four inches by three, there isn't anything left over; you have three parts of 4/3 inches each. But if you take three-inch pieces of four inches, you have one inch left over. ~Chris - -- Christopher R. Maden, Principal Consultant, HMM Consulting Int'l, Inc. DTDs/schemas - conversion - ebooks - publishing - Web - B2B - training http://www.hmmci.com/ > http://crism.maden.org/consulting/ > PGP Fingerprint: BBA6 4085 DED0 E176 D6D4 5DFC AC52 F825 AFEC 58DA -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPA/ffKxS+CWv7FjaEQIycACgvX6WIK89d3IwFXPHttoY88RKEFgAn0sE ZBNJfMtghi3TrqwYfQpWSw8r =Dk6f -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
fop input fo file
i have a website that allows clients to print documents of there info which
is a table created from an sql query and a bunch of asp vbscript and java
script. the client can customize the table by adding or removing columns of
info.
using asp i am writing a fo file i was hoping to send to the fop servlet an
serve the pdfs to the cleint rather than the html they get now.
the problem is the fo file seem to have to reside locally in order for the
fop servlet to find it.
http:\\myserver\fop\fop?fo=c:\temp\test.fo
works fine
http:\\myserver\fop\fop?fo=\\myserver\temp\test.fo
does not
i also thought about running the command line version from vbscript and then
sending it to the client.
ala
dim oWSH
set oWSH = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
oWSH.Run "fop c:\temp\test.fo -pdf c:\temp\test.pdf",1,true
Set oWSH = Nsothing
this doesn't work either
any help would be appreciated.
new at this
matt laywell
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Bleeding / Hyphenation issues
We are having problems with our reports because FOP doesn't break on hyphens. For example, if a word like: xxx-yyy comes at the end of a sentence, FOP won't break the word at one of the hypens like we would like it to: xxx- yyy Any workaround for this? Darrel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Footer on the last page
Hi everybody, Here is my problem: I have a document that may have 1 to N pages. I would like to print something on the of the last page. If there is only on page, the last page is also the first. I tried something like: If the footer doesn't fit on a page according to the body dimension, then I want it on an additional page that will be the last, but then, I want a different layout for the (N-1) previous pages: without any footer. It doesnt work: I made several tests but it looks like I have the footer on every page instead of the last one only. Thanx a billion, Thierry Arved Sandstrom wrote: Hi, Jens In the page masters you can explicitly specify the region-master names also, using the 'region-name' property. It so happens that many people leave these off in examples, and the default values (such as 'xsl-region-start') get assigned. So don't trust examples all the time. :-) Let's say you have one page-master for the first page, and another page-master for the rest of the pages. Give the region-before's different region-names. Then, in your page-sequence, define 2 static-contents for the headers, one of which references one region-name, and the other references the other region-name. They will get appropriately mapped. Hope this helps. Arved Sandstrom - Original Message - From: Jens Eckert To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 11:21 AM Subject: Re: a custom header according to page number I do have a similar (or the same?) problem. I have a flow that runs through all the pages. On the first page, though, I'd like to have a different header (static content). So far I defined two simple-page masters and a page-sequence-master that uses a simple-page master for the first page and the other one for the rest. But where do I specify where which (static content) header to use? In the page-masters I can only set margins etc.(?) I tried to use two page-sequences, one for each page master, but then I get the XML-content twice: once for the first page sequence once for the second. Can I specify static content in the page-master? Thanks Jens Cyril Rognon schrieb: If you only need to ditinguish the first page from the other ones, simply use a different page-master (reference or name ;-) according to the spec conformance) and use this page master for your cover page only. This will do the trick easily. one page-master for the cover (one page-sequence using this page-master-reference) , and different page-master for the rest of the page sequences. I strongly recomend you to read some FO tutorial, this will spare you a lot of research work (you'll find some ref on http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/) At 14:18 03/12/2001 +, you wrote: Thanks Cyril, please see answers below Your question is a little underspecified ... ... [Ismaeil, Sameh] no, I don't want to distinguish odd and even pages, specifically, I need to distinguish the frist page from the rest of the pages, any clue? Don't think about using some predicate considering the page number, xsl fo and fop are loosely coupled, it is meant to be that way. So it forbids the user to use the internal page number programaticaly (some FO processor provide extension to do this, fop does not). [Ismaeil, Sameh] yes, I kind of noticed that , it is usually one way: FOP code -> fo XSL ->pdf document if your need is more complex and you have some magic formula to guess wich page is affected, conditionnal master-page may be to low level ... [Ismaeil, Sameh] I'll give conditional-master-page some insight and hope it will work, thanks a lot Good luck. ... Cyril Rognon http://www.objectiva.fr
Memory utilization
I am attempting to do database publishing using fop to format the output. I have created a style sheet that creates a table of contents and an index for my document using in combination with id attributes. A larger document is represented by an XML file of approximately 8MB and contains thousands of such links. I am finding that the JVM memory pool required to process this is about 750MB at this point. My database is not yet complete and the documents are likely to grow both in size and number of links a good bit before I am done. I have tried running this on a machine with 512MB of memory and it trashed hopelessly for 12 hours without completing. I have 1 machine with 1GB of RAM that I normally reserve as a server that can do the processing in 1/2 an hour, but I am worried that I will lose the ability to create the document as it continues to grow. Do you have any suggestions that would help tame the memory utilization? Will the next release of fop be able to process links with a smaller amount of memory? Thank you, Ed
Re: timeframe for maintenance release
Christian Geisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arved already proposed 15 Dec as release date. > > I think it would be a good idea to do some testing before the actual release, > so we should do a code freeze some days in advance. > What about Monday the 10th ? Any hope of including my recently-posted font encoding patch in the release? Cheers, -Peter S. Housel- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.home.com/housel/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
float
Time ago it wasn't possible to have text float arount a table or some element with an absolute position. Has that changed? Matthias Dott. Matthias Fischer abc.Mediaservice GmbH Nebelhornstraße 8 86807 Buchloe Tel. (08241) 9686-38 Fax (08241) 9686-26 http://www.abc-media.de e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ein Unternehmen der abc.Mediengruppe - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
timeframe for maintenance release
Hi, Arved already proposed 15 Dec as release date. I think it would be a good idea to do some testing before the actual release, so we should do a code freeze some days in advance. What about Monday the 10th ? Should we make another release candidate? Christian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: break-after vs break-before
Here is the solution to your blank page problem: -Original Message- From: John M. Corro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 11:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: break-after vs break-before I'm trying to put together a report that has automatic page breaking (for ref. the XSL is at the bottom of the email). My problem is that the report starts w/ a blank page when I use 'break-before', but if I try 'start-after' a blank page is at the end of the report. The blank page at the end isn't so bad, but if there's a way to remove it that'd be nice. Also, does the 'break-XXX' attribute simply add page breaks whenever you reach the end of a page or is it smarter than that? For example, say a table is 3 pages in size. Can you use the 'break-XXX' attribute to make it such that table headers are printed at the top of all 3 pages? My understanding is that the table will simply print across the 3 pages w/ no regards for adding table headers at the top of each page. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
break-after vs break-before
I'm trying to put together a report that has automatic page breaking (for ref. the XSL is at the bottom of the email). My problem is that the report starts w/ a blank page when I use 'break-before', but if I try 'start-after' a blank page is at the end of the report. The blank page at the end isn't so bad, but if there's a way to remove it that'd be nice. Also, does the 'break-XXX' attribute simply add page breaks whenever you reach the end of a page or is it smarter than that? For example, say a table is 3 pages in size. Can you use the 'break-XXX' attribute to make it such that table headers are printed at the top of all 3 pages? My understanding is that the table will simply print across the 3 pages w/ no regards for adding table headers at the top of each page. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Numeric properties
I found it very difficult to develop a coherent way of representing numeric property values when I was looking at the property values expression evaluator. My initial approach had a structure that looked something like: PropertyValue | v Numeric / | \ /v\ Number Length Percentage with inheritance flowing down. The problem was that Numeric types are changeable. Any numeric with a unit power of zero is a number; any numeric with a unit power of one is a measure of some kind, and other unit powers represent intermediate calulation results in the expression evaluator. A PropertyValue can start life as a Length, become a number (unit power 0) through a multop, and then theoretically mutate into a completely different form of measurement, e.g. an Angle. The table I used for this is: * Operations defined on combinations of the types (where a percentage * is treated in the same manner as a number) are: * number anyop number = number * baseunitanyop baseunit2 = Illegal * number multop baseunit= baseunit * number addop baseunit= Illegal * baseunitmultop baseunit= baseunit (with changed power) * baseunit^n addop baseunit^n = baseunit^n * baseunit^n addop baseunit^m = Illegal * I don't know how kosher this is, and would appreciate any comments. I am also puzzled by the constraint in the spec (5.9.6 Absolute Numerics) that: In addition, only the mod, addition, and subtraction operators require that the numerics on either side of the operation be absolute numerics of the same unit power. For other operations, the unit powers may be different and the result should be mathematically consistent as with the handling of powers in algebra. As I read this, it means that, while I can divide a by a number, resulting in a of the same unit power, I cannot take the mod of a using a number. Can anyone explaing the reasons for this restriction? The approach taken in the current expression evaluator is that all arithmetic operations involving property values require that the operand be another property value, and the operation generates a new property value object. This may well be the cleanest way, but I am experimenting with expressing the result of the operation directly in the PropertyValue object on which the arithmetic operation is invoked. In order for this to work, I had to eliminate the subclasses of Numeric. These (Length, Percentage, IntegerType, Angle, Time, Frequency and possibly Number) remain as "static" classes which provide the class methods makeLength, makePercentage, etc, all of which return Numerics. The type of a Numeric is distinguished by the baseunit, which may change as a result of arithmetic operations. I am currently working my way through the Numeric and other subclasses of PropertyValue, and setting up any necessary PropertyValue objects to express the initial values of the properties in Properties.java, the monster properties file. The propertyStacks in PropertyConsts.java will contain PropertyTriplet objects, which potentially contain specified, computed and actual property values. Specified is a String; the othes are PropertyValue objects. I will upload the latest versions to my web page later tonight, for anyone who is interested. Peter - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FOP working version?
Can someone send me a link to a working FOP version? downloading versioning from cvs.apache.org/snapshots/xml-fop the results are not so good. thanks. Antonio. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
