jim_garrett@xxxxxxxx wrote:
I have searched the cinjug archives and found information regarding Java frameworks used to facilitate the creation of PDF files and found that several of you have leveraged the Apache/Jakarta FOP framework to do so. For those who have done this, was there another tool used to facilitate the creation of the XSL files containing the FOP tags? From the surface this appears to be a very difficult task in that the FOP tags are very cumbersome to use. Is there an easy way to accomplish this.
Generally, XSL-FO files are created from other XML files via XSLT
stylesheets (<xsl:attribute-set> can be useful here). However, you can
just directly create the files instead if you so desire. The tags are
admittedly pretty verbose, but just think of it as a rather odd form of
HTML and you'll be fine.
There are a couple of GUI-ish editors out there (XSL-fast comes to
mind), but no real WYSIWYG tools that I know of.
- Eric
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