RE: XHTML --> FO
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The stylesheet tries to convert XSL FO data into HTML+CSS1. CSS2
support is still rare among browsers, and hardly can be relyed
upon. Even with CSS1, there are many discrepancies between MS
Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator. However, one can
hardly do this task without using any stylesheet capabilities at
all; so CSS1 seemed to be a common denominator.
It goes without saying that XSL FOs are much more powerful than
HTML+CSS1; moreover, since paged media are organized differently
from scrollable media, absolute similarity is not achievable.
Therefore, the conversion aims mostly at giving the user a
possibility to browse FO files, without pretending to preserve all
formatting subtleties predisposed for quality printing. The task
is also simplified by common vocabulary shared by XSL FO and CSS.
With this premises, the problem can be solved by amazingly simple
means: a 30 kb stylesheet does the bulk of the work.
Certainly, not everything can be achieved easily: for instance,
calculating the inheritance propagation along the FO tree is a
really tough task, as well as parsing CSS2 shorthands in XSLT. We
didn't even attempted to tackle this: in our opinion, this is more
easily achieved by a preprocessor. RenderX has such a preprocessor
built into XEP; redirecting its output into a file gives us a
"canonical" XSL FO document - with all shorthands expanded,
inheritance propagated, length units normalized etc.
However, if your XSL FO documents don't make use of shorthands,
multiple columns, absolutely positioned blocks and similar
advanced features, the results of the conversion can be very close
to the truth even without preprocessing, like in the examples
given above. This requires special care while writing XSL FO
stylesheets; but our experience shows it is relatively easy.
"Afshartous, Nick"
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> This is AntennaHouse's version, haven't used it very much but
> I think it
> works. Needs an internet connection while processing (at least with
> FOP), probably for the XHTML namespace...
Thanks, I've been using the AntennaHouse version but it doesn't
translate tables in a way that satisifes FOP. Just thought
someone may have already solved this ?
Nick
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> From: Santtu Pajukanta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Afshartous, Nick wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've seen discussion on the topic in the archives, but
> > no postings of stylesheets that are compatible with FOP.
> >
> > Could someone please post a stylesheet that
> > does XHTML --> FO where the output is compatible
> > with FOP (i.e. tables work). Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Nick
> >
> >
>
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RE: XHTML --> FO
Title: RE: XHTML --> FO > This is AntennaHouse's version, haven't used it very much but > I think it > works. Needs an internet connection while processing (at least with > FOP), probably for the XHTML namespace... Thanks, I've been using the AntennaHouse version but it doesn't translate tables in a way that satisifes FOP. Just thought someone may have already solved this ? Nick > -Original Message- > From: Santtu Pajukanta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 2:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: XHTML --> FO > > > Afshartous, Nick wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I've seen discussion on the topic in the archives, but > > no postings of stylesheets that are compatible with FOP. > > > > Could someone please post a stylesheet that > > does XHTML --> FO where the output is compatible > > with FOP (i.e. tables work). Thanks. > > > > -- > > Nick > > > > >
Re: XHTML --> FO
Afshartous, Nick wrote: Hi, I've seen discussion on the topic in the archives, but no postings of stylesheets that are compatible with FOP. Could someone please post a stylesheet that does XHTML --> FO where the output is compatible with FOP (i.e. tables work). Thanks. -- Nick This is AntennaHouse's version, haven't used it very much but I think it works. Needs an internet connection while processing (at least with FOP), probably for the XHTML namespace... -- -- Santtu "Japsu" Pajukanta -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ICQ#: 115011651 "Any job worth doing with a laser is worth doing with many, many lasers", -Khrima in ADVENTURERS! the comic by Mark Shallow http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"; xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> auto auto 1in 1in 1in 1in 0.5in 0.5in true true 1 12pt lr-tb start false small center small center 2em bold 0.67em 0.67em always always 1.5em bold 0.83em 0.83em always always 1.17em bold 1em 1em always always 1em bold 1.17em 1.17em always always 0.83em bold 1.33em 1.33em always always 0.67em bold 1.67em 1.67em always always 1em 1em inherited-property-value(start-indent) + 24pt inherited-property-value(end-indent) + 24pt 1em 1em 0.83em monospace pre 1em 1em italic 1px inset 0.67em 0.67em 1em 1em 0pt 0pt 1em 1em 0pt 0pt baseline baseline 1em 1em always always inherited-property-value(start-indent) + 24pt • 1em serif o 0.67em monospace 0.25em - bold 0.9em sans-serif 0.05em 1. a. i. 0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt start relative center separate 2px 1px center bolder center 1px 1px 1px 1px bolder bolder bolder italic italic italic italic italic italic monospace monospace monospace monospace larger smaller sub smaller super smaller line-through line-through line-through underline underline 2px solid underline blue - - before after center auto baseline
RE: XHTML --> FO
Title: RE: XHTML --> FO Hi, I've seen discussion on the topic in the archives, but no postings of stylesheets that are compatible with FOP. Could someone please post a stylesheet that does XHTML --> FO where the output is compatible with FOP (i.e. tables work). Thanks. -- Nick
