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Re: XSL print StyleSheets
- To: Bob Stayton <bobs at sco dot com>
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XSL print StyleSheets
- From: Christoph Steinbeck <steinbeck at ice dot mpg dot de>
- Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 21:02:35 +0200
- CC: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org, harry at inpharmatica dot co dot uk
- Organization: Max-Planck-Institute of Chemical Ecology
- References: <10005030200.aa11886@mammoth.sco.com>
- Reply-To: steinbeck at ice dot mpg dot de
Bob Stayton wrote:
>
> > From: Matthew Harrison <harry@inpharmatica.co.uk>
> >
> > 3. But I'm still not in print by this route. 'fo' stylesheets produce fo (I'm
> > learning as I go here :?), not tex like the DSSSL print stylesheets
> > and don't quite get me printing. I'm sure I've missed something.
> > How do I get from fo to tex? (or to print by any route, apart from
> > printing html from a browser or using html2ps)?
>
> The missing piece is a formatting object processor.
> I have successfully used FOP from the Apache
> XML project <http://xml.apache.org> to produce
> PDF from DocBook XML. It's written in Java 1.1
> and can be used standalone or as a servlet.
> You use XT or equivalent to generate the fo file,
> and then FOP to convert fo to PDF.
Sounds great.
The problem is that I could not get on any of the apache sites today.
What's going on there? Is the manila virus striking again?
But another problem bugs me more: There must be simple switch to make xt
+ ../html/docbook.xsl produce multiple html files instead of dumping one
large pile of text to stdout. I searched extensivly but did not find a
solution. Only some cryptic explanation :-) on
http://www.jclark.com/xml/xt.html.
Shouldn't there just be one nice little commandline switch, or am I
getting something completely wrong.
Cheers,
Chris
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