Publishing with XML - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v4.02, by Dr. Herong Yang
Formatting XML Files to PDF Files with XSLT
This section provides an example of formatting an XML file to a PDF file with XSLT stylesheets.
In the previous two examples, the input file is an XSL-FO file which contains the source information mixed with the XSL formatting objects directly. In this example, the source information is stored in an normal XML file, and the XSL formatting objects are mixed with the XSL transformation templates in an XSL file.
So I modified the old hello.xsl into hello_fo.xsl:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="p"> <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"> <fo:layout-master-set> <fo:simple-page-master master-name="my_page" margin="0.5in"> <fo:region-body/> </fo:simple-page-master> </fo:layout-master-set> <fo:page-sequence master-reference="my_page"> <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body"> <fo:block> -<xsl:value-of select="."/>- </fo:block> </fo:flow> </fo:page-sequence> </fo:root> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>
Note that:
Let's run FOP with the following command:
fop -xml hello_xsl.xml -xsl hello_fo.xsl -pdf hello.pdf
Now if you open the output file, hello.pdf, with Adobe Acrobat Reader, you should see the greeting message, "-Hello world!-", showing at the top left corner of the page. This is perfect.
Table of Contents
Ideas on Publishing Books using XML
Overview of hyPub - A Simple XML Publishing Tool
Writing Book Contents in XHTML Source Files
Transforming Book Source Files with XSL Technology
Designing Web Page Layouts with Tables
Controlling Web Page Appearance with CSS
Sharing HTML Codes with JavaScript Files
Generating Web Pages with hyPub
►Formatting Printable Documents with XSL-FO
What Is XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects)
Example of XSL-FO Document - hello.fo
Installing Apache FOP - XSL-FO Processor
Formatting XSL-FO Files to Text Files Using FOP
Formatting XSL-FO Files to PDF Files Using FOP
►Formatting XML Files to PDF Files with XSLT
Tranforming XML Files with XSLT Stylesheets