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List:       fop-user
Subject:    Re: Creating FO DOM directly
From:       Jeremias Maerki <dev () jeremias-maerki ! ch>
Date:       2006-09-27 11:56:54
Message-ID: 20060927135454.5120.DEV () jeremias-maerki ! ch
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On 27.09.2006 13:15:34 Glen Mazza wrote:
> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> 
> > I need to create PDF from the information contained in some Java objects. The 
> > standard way to do this according to the FOP docs, is to create XML from the 
> > objects, then transform to XSL-FO using XSLT.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Yes.  Learning XSLT (like Ant) is Time Very Well Spent.
> 
> > But since there are FO DOM nodes internally in FOP, it seems to me to be a 
> > natural alternative to create these nodes directly instead of going via XML + 
> > XSLT.
> > 
> > 
> 
> I placed in such an example a few years back into our 
> {fop-dist}/examples/ directory, back in my ultra-newbie days.  It's 
> quite hideous, but here it is:  [1].  (Unfortunately, with the switch of 
> FOP's repository from CVS to SVN, we apparently have lost this deleted 
> file, but it remains in our CVS mailing list archives.)

It's still there:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/examples/embedding/java/embedding/ExampleDOM2PDF.java?view=markup
 But I do not recommend this approach.

> [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-cvs&m=106081657102191&w=2
> 
> > Is this possible, and how would I go about processing the tree?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> See above, but really look at these examples[2] for the XSLT & SAX-based 
> way of processing.  This will prove much easier for you.
> 
> [2] 
> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/examples/embedding/java/embedding/
>  
> Glen


Jeremias Maerki


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