We will use a builtin exist function to convert xslfo file into pdf. Because the output of an xslfo instance document is processed by another program to get the final pdf output, it is a bit difficult to grasp the processing involved in the xslfo workflow. Xslt is used to make xml documents readable by transforming tagged data into a nice looking document. Inserting a bookmarktree with at least one internaldestination bookmark into a xslfo file disrupts the pdfa 1b compatibility of the resulting pdf file.
This process means that in an environment such as a web application that generates reports in html and pdf, you must write a new xslt stylesheet that transforms data to html, and then write, debug, and maintain the corresponding xsl fo stylesheet. Xsl fo areas this chapter describes the area model of xsl fo. A given bookmark may be further subdivided into a sequence of subbookmarks to as many levels as the authors desire. Xsl fo flow this chapter describes the output flow of xsl fo documents. Xslfo is xsl formatting objects and can be used for formatting xml data. Xsl fo is one of the few books to go beyond a basic introduction to the technology. Xsl fo blocks this chapter describes xsl fo output blocks. Xsl fo is part of xsl extensible stylesheet language, a set of w3c technologies designed for the transformation and formatting of xml data. Pdf documents are created via xslfo documents which are xml documents that use a specific pagedescription vocabulary. Please provide me an example of how to achieve this. The most straightforward way to produce a pdf from xml is to write in a syntax known as xslfo. I need to write a xsl fo template but i dont have access to the source xml.
If you need thai, fo and xsl formatter is pretty much your only option today. Example xml data, xsl stylesheet and the resulting pdf are in data folder xml and xsl are courtesy of the xquery wikibook. I dont use xsl fo, so i am not as familiar with some of the issues as others may be. The full list of xslfo objects and their properties. Xslfo is one of the few books to go beyond a basic introduction to the technology. In order to use the proprietary extensions of antenna house in the stylesheet, a xmlns namespace attribute for these extensions has to be added in the element xmlns. Generally speaking, xslfo controls the layout and the presentation of xml documents. Xslfo bookmarks xml to pdf, xslfo, svg, word, html. Pdf defines adobe standard type1 fonts times, courier, helvetica, symbol, zapfdingbats. Xsl formatter has the menu to use adobe standard type1 fonts for western fonts, but windows automatically replaces the font name. You may think that you have a xslt which does the same job. Example xml data, xsl stylesheet and the resulting pdf are in data folder xml and xsl are courtesy of the xquery wikibook to produce result. See installing the xslfo module if this module is not installed and configured.
Inserting bookmarks into xslfo files disrupts the pdfa1b. Jan 17, 2001 xsl formatting objects xsl fo, an xml vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics. This is a set of formatting instructions in xml which, when rendered through a formatter, will produce a pdf. The document transformation usually is accomplished by applying the rules defined in a style sheet through the use of an xslt processor. Pdf is a java pdf component to create pdf documents without using adobe acrobat.
Fop users embeddingmerging external pdf files with xslfo. The following code exemplifies how to convert xsl fo to pdf. The requirement is that i want to create bookmarks in pdf using xsl fo stylesheets. Xslfo example one more step than in the html the source xml. Xsl fo output this chapter describes the output elements of xsl fo documents. Xslt xsl transformations a language for transforming xml. Pdf option outputs pdf files using these installed fonts. Stylesheet for transformation of w3c documents xml, xpath, xslt, xsl fo specifications conformant to xml specification dtd 2. This element contains one or more declarations of page masters and page sequence masters elements that define layouts of single pages and page sequences. So you just need to make sure that generateid is passed the same node when the block is created and when you come to generate the bookmark tree. Xsl fo pages this chapter describes how xsl fo defines page layout.
Processing xslfo using formatting engine or formatter. Inserting bookmarks into xslfo files disrupts the pdfa. Some new tips and articles have now been added into aspose. When we set margins, we use words like top, bottom, left, and right. The most straightforward way to produce a pdf from xml is to write in a syntax known as xsl fo. So we will go backwards by first looking at the xslfo given as input to the renderer. Is there a way how top print the source xml into a pdf so that i can copy it from the pdf then and paste into. A given bookmark may be further subdivided into a sequence of subbookmarks to as many levels as the authors. While many books touch on xsl fo in their treatment of xslt, this book offers indepth coverage of xsl fo s features and strengths. The obligatory namespace attribute declares the xsl formatting objects namespace.
If you are missing a tag or think a tag is not handled as expected please open a feature request item. Because the output of an xsl fo instance document is processed by another program to get the final pdf output, it is a bit difficult to grasp the processing involved in the xsl fo workflow. We will use different words when we talk about the content area, because not all languages are written lefttoright, toptobottom. The example uses jaxp to transform the xml file to xslfo and fop to transform the xslfo to pdf. Html2fo ist a converter for html files to the new xsl. Rendering software understands the xslfo tags and creates pdf. But i have thirdparty files, most of them in pdf format, which i have to import into the final pdf file. Xslfo xsl formatting objects is a markup language for xml document formatting that is most often used to generate pdf files. Xslfo xsl formatting objects a language that can be used in xslt for the purpose of presenting the xml. Pharmasug china an implementation of xslfo techniques. When processing with an xslt processor, is a literal result element, hence is a valid child of.
Once you have the xsl fo document, xsl rendering engine, such as fop or xsl formatter see xslfo tools section below can be used to convert xsl fo elements in to a pdf, postscript, rtf or any other such print format. The following code exemplifies how to convert xslfo to pdf. Although this foediting approach suggests that the problem lies in the fo file, this is not the case. The second part is called xsl fo or, simply, formatting objects fo. Author dave pawson is well known in the xslt and xsl fo communities, and maintains the xslt faq. Altsoft xslfo2pdf formatting engine is the most costeffective formatter on the market, for converting xslfo to pdf files in printable formats. Xmlmind xslfo converter is an xslfo processor similar to apache fop, renderx xep or antenna house xsl formatter. Processing xsl fo using formatting engine or formatter. Fo tools to create advanced document layouts and formatting styles to prettyup your xml documents for use in single source publishing, multichannel publishing and other content management applications. Xsl fo editor software free download xsl fo editor. In our xslfo tutorial you will learn what xslfo is.
Unlike the aforementioned processors which all renders xslfo as pdf and postscriptdlt, xmlmind xslfo converter converts xslfo v1. Xquerygenerating pdf from xslfo files wikibooks, open. Xslt used to transform xml document into various other types of document. Xsl formatting objects is a w3c standard used by ecrion xf rendering server 2008 to produce print. A given bookmark may be further subdivided into a sequence of sub bookmarks to as many levels as the authors. In the following xslfo tutorials you will learn what xsl formatting objects xsl. With our manual editing, we force the pdf in a certain direction. Based in an xml source data file, and generate the final pdf report. Xsl fo xsl formatting objects is a markup language for xml document formatting that is most often used to generate pdf files. Often, novice users save the intermediate result in a file, a byte array or a dom tree. Powerful report design tools let you build attractive pdf reports based on xml data and even generate xsl. You will need a module that converts xsl fo to pdf.
Renderx support xsl formatting objects tutorial renderx. We have an xml document created by some application or manually and xslt scheme, with the help of which we obtain the xslfo document. It supports almost all important pdf features and enables you converting html, xslfo and excel files into pdf. The first bookmark of the entire set or the first bookmark of the chapter. Convert xml to pdf and other formats easily using the visual, draganddrop functionality in stylevision. Before continuing, we have to take a side trip to explain some terminology. Once you have the xsl fo document, xsl rendering engine, such as fop or xsl formatter see xsl fo tools section below can be used to convert xsl fo elements in to a pdf, postscript, rtf or any other such print format. Apache fop formatting objects processor is a java application that reads a formatting objects tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output here, in our case, pdf.
The most important set of extensions for us was the indexing extensions, which allow the index to be smart about things like collapsing consecutive pages into ranges and eliminating duplicate page references. Fop in fact creates a pdfa 1b file, but verifying its pdfa compatiblity using adobe preflight 9 or intarsys pdfa live. Altsoft xslfo 2 pdf features xslfo formatter that supports almost all xslfo features and provides several extensions in order to cover special requirements. The output xslfo from the xsl transformation is piped through to fop using sax events. Xslfo is part of xsl extensible stylesheet language, a set of w3c technologies designed for the transformation and formatting of xml data. There arent a lot of differences between the two, especially if you dont do dodtype manuals, with security markings, at. Xsl formatter formats the object using the fonts installed. I need to write a xslfo template but i dont have access to the source xml. While many books touch on xslfo in their treatment of xslt, this book offers indepth coverage of xslfos features and strengths. Xsl fo xsl formatting objects a language that can be used in xslt for the purpose of presenting the xml. The generation of pdf documents is very simple and can be described in the following way. I thought it wasnt possible with xslfo to embed pdf, until i found this.
A bookmark has a title, an internaldestination make sure the block you point to has a matching id and a bookmark can have other bookmarks as well to make a hierarchical tree there is a way to set the bookmark tree to open with the document, but i need to check what that is exactly if that is important. Introduction to xslt concepts slide 23 an xsl stylesheet transform close your eyes, this is code c here is a template rule c this rule matches a element c notice that it is made up of xml elements two kinds c the two kinds of xml elements c xslt language tags instructions c html tags 1 2. So, in the flow content, task1 for chap 8 seq 1, pg 1 must display content and must be linkable to the first pdf bookmark. This is the most efficient way to do this because the intermediate result doesnt have to be saved somewhere. With only a modest investment of time, developers can convert an xml file to an html file that users can display in their browsers. The xslfo can be very useful for such tasks as producing pdf or postscript files from xml documents. Xml technologies xsl fo examples of application bookmarks in pdf documents bookmarks in pdf documents bookmarks are generated automatically in various hierarchical levels for the overview and the navigation in pdf documents. This is a set of formatting instructions in xml which, when rendered through a. The actual conversion to pdf is done by the pdfserializer which uses software from fop, another apache software foundation project. It is a combination of the first two examples above. The xsl formatting objects xslfo standard is one of the least known parts of the xslt standard. Notes on installing apache fop processor enabling the xsl fo module.
Moreover, since markers are ascribed to areas that form a tree, you may consider making level information implicit, and derive it from the area tree. Get the basics of xslfo techniques convert html documents into formatting objects and then into pdf files skill level. In principle we could write this xml file by hand but, looking from figure 5. All formatting details associated with the context in the toc are ignored when using the xsl fo engine. I have my main xml file with all the data coming from my application and i generate the pdf with fop without any trouble. The fo file is all right, but apache fop doesnt support all the nice features in the xslfo specification yet. Then we compile the obtained xslfo document to pdf with the help of fop. W3c specification examples xslfo, xml to pdf, postscript.
An xsl document specifies how a browser should render an xml document. The xslfo syntax will help you describe what the pages needs to look like and where the. So we will go backwards by first looking at the xsl fo given as input to the renderer. Pdf for java documentation that may guide you briefly how to use aspose. The example uses jaxp to transform the xml file to xsl fo and fop to transform the xsl fo to pdf. Pdf bookmarks in pdfs generated using the xsl fo engine will always consist of the number followed by the title contents, irrespective of any other content that may be associated with the title when it is displayed in a table of contents. This example demonstrates how you can convert an arbitrary xml file to pdf using xslt and xslfofop. Xsl fo xslfo belongs to xml family, so this is obligatory. You will learn how to use xslfo to format your xml documents for output. The output xsl fo from the xsl transformation is piped through to fop using sax events. This example demonstrates how you can convert an arbitrary xml file to pdf using xslt and xsl fo fop. Jun 26, 2009 xslfo is xsl formatting objects and can be used for formatting xml data. Pdf documents are created via xsl fo documents which are xml documents that use a specific pagedescription vocabulary. Publishing xml data in html and pdf using a single xslt.
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