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11. XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects).

• Lecture notes
  • Introduction to XSL-FO by Dave Pawson
• Further reading
  • XSL 1.0 Specification (W3C)
• Practical work: Xalan and FOP on venus
  • On Windows, start XSession and login to venus via Putty (make sure "Enable X11 forwarding" is ticked in Putty configuration).
  • Copy Pawson's examples doc1.xml and doc1-fo.xsl to your directory.
    Use Xalan to transform the XML file with the XSLT stylesheet by
    ./clt232-xalan -in doc1.xml -xsl doc1-fo.xsl -out doc1.fo
    View the output Formatting Objects (.fo) file in a text editor.
  • Copy the shell script clt232-fop to your directory.
    Make it executable (chmod +x clt232-fop).
    This script runs the open source Java FOP Formatting Objects Processor.
  • Use FOP to transform the Formatting Objects file to PDF by
    ./clt232-fop -fo doc1.fo -pdf doc1.pdf
    View the output PDF file with Adobe Reader.
  • Do the same with Pawson's examples doc2.xml and doc2-fo.xsl.

12. More XSL-FO. Transforming XML to PDF.

• Lecture notes
  • Using XSL Formatting Objects, Part 1 and Part 2 by David Eisenberg
• Further reading
  • Transforming XML into PDF by Doug Tidwell (IBM)
• Practical work: Xalan and FOP on venus (continued)
  • Copy Tidwell's sonnet-fo.xsl stylesheet (updated by G. Wilcock) to your directory. Transform the sonnet from XML to XSL-FO by
    ./clt232-xalan -in sonnet130.xml -xsl sonnet-fo.xsl -out sonnet130.fo
  • Use FOP to transform the Formatting Objects file to PDF by
    ./clt232-fop -fo sonnet130.fo -pdf sonnet130.pdf
    View the output PDF file with Adobe Reader. (You can also print it.)
  • FOP can also use Xalan to go from XML to PDF in one command by
    ./clt232-fop -xml sonnet130.xml -xsl sonnet-fo.xsl -pdf sonnet130.pdf

Assignment 5.

• Transforming XML to PDF.