Hello, I encountered an endless loop problem in the "format" method in PageSequence.java. There is a do-while statement in that method which always sets the...
With the two files you can see at the bottom of this mail, when I try to generate the pdf file, my program fails, and the only thing I get is an endless...
... Your question is very specific to FOP, and would be better suited to the fop-user list. ... To find a solution, you need to look at exactly what causes...
Chris Bowditch
bowditch_chris@...
Feb 4, 2004 9:56 am
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Hi, ... Solution 1: Use another formatter. FOP is not OK for complex stylesheets. Solution 2: Rewrite your stylesheet to be FOP conformant. Idea: the reason of...
... It would have been helpful if you could have provided the FO, by transforming the XML and XSL files, which I did locally and found that you have defined a...
Chris Bowditch
bowditch_chris@...
Feb 4, 2004 10:06 am
4891
Hi, Can anyone tell me how it's possible to change the value of an xsl:variable using numbers? ex. <xsl:variable name="test"> <xsl:value-of select="1" /> ...
... the xsl:variable tag is poorly named, because it is really a constant. Once defined its value cannot be modified. There are usually alternatives to achieve...
Chris Bowditch
bowditch_chris@...
Feb 4, 2004 11:16 am
4893
The problem is that the XML file is generated 'on the fly' by the users of the application. They can choose between different objects of the database to...
... Solution 1: page-width = "indefinite". Not sure if FOP supports this attribute. Solution 2: get starting 5 (or 10) columns from XML in your XSL and ignore...
... or even better with the XML file that I have sent before... how can I do to transform it in a way that in each page I will only show some number or...
... AFAIK XSL-FO does not support this electronic worksheet processors specific feature. Just an idea: if you use fixed table layout you know exact columns...
... Careful Chris ... :{)} When I dared to say this years ago (I've just tried to find it in the archives and I cannot, I would have loved to find the quote...
Thank you very much!! the solution 4 is, at the present moment, the one I choose :) (I hope the client will be agree with that solution ;) ) Thanks! Thanks!...
... Thanks Ken. I suppose in a strict mathematics sense the name is valid. But we are working in a computing environment, and xsl:variable is not a variable in...
Chris Bowditch
bowditch_chris@...
Feb 5, 2004 8:41 am
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I am an IT project manager for a large UK newspaper publisher. I am investigating the possibility of building a content-sharing system for our 250+ titles to...
Call me cynical, but XML and UK publishers seem about 15 years out of synch? If you want to go the xml route, its doable, but expect the 'huh' response from...
... Unless the layouts for your articles are simpler than most, it is likely that XSL-FO 1.0 cannot meet your requirements. If you are trying to use FO to...
In our manuals, a chapter always ends on an even page. So I have the page-sequence defined to insert a blank page when the chapter content ends on an odd page...
... You can't do the "(76 blank)" bit because you cannot calculate using page numbers. ... I've just tried using a combination of page-position="last" and ...
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... likely ... to use ... that ... of ... Thanks for your feedback. The type of articles we are intending to reuse this way do in general have a fairly simple...
... I was only refering to the formatting/editing component of UltraXML. I have no opinion on their content management features having neither used nor...
I need to add a line to the bottom of a page. I'm not talking about the footer, I mean the bottom of the xsl-region-body. I have some pages that have text at...
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Hi All, I am investigating the use of various technologies to help us with our document generation requirements (low volume/high complexity and high volume/low...
... That would be "for pre-existing proprietary templates" which, by definition, would make them difficult animals to find since they'd be the domain of...
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