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January 17, 2013
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Generating FO from Arbortext XSL-FO

  • January 17, 2013
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Hi,
Does anyone have any insights into the ability to generate .FO files from the Arbortext generated XSL-FO?
I am looking to use Apache FOP, but seem to be getting rather numerous XSL exceptions?
Any insights would be welcome.

Thanks
Kevin Sperring

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    ptc-48751351-Visitor
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    January 17, 2013
    Kevin,

    You should be able to export the XSLFO from Styler to a .xsl file. You should then be able to do an XSLT publish using that stylesheet to generate the raw FO markup.

    The generated XSLT should be perfectly legal, but I do think it might be XSL 2.0, so if you try to run it with an XSLT 1.0 engine (like Xalan, which is what FOP uses by default), it might not work. Arbortext's default XSLT processor is Saxon, which supports XSLT 2.0.

    Chris

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    ksperring1-VisitorAuthor
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    January 17, 2013
    Hi Chris,
    Thanks for that heads up.
    I'm using the saxon9he.jar and while the transform does not produce any errors, the output contains only the document content and absolutely no FO markup?

    And then the text content follows.
    The exported stylesheet is a version 1.0
    I'm quite happy to follow an approach of saxon producing the .FO file for FOP to consume and produce the PDF from.

    Thanks
    Kevin
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    ksperring1-VisitorAuthor
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    January 17, 2013
    Chris,
    Thanks I've got this sorted.
    Would help if I did not use the home edition of saxon which does not include the necessary extensions.

    Thanks
    Kevin
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