AW: [xsl] creating multiple pdf-files from one xml

["Kloeck, Erwin" <Erwin.Kloeck@xxxxxx>]

Andreas,

I fear I didn't understand the question correctly, how do I read the
files back in?

I call the xslt processor from within a java program and write the resulting fo files to a specific directory. Then I loop through the directory and send every file to the fo processor. So there is no 'piping', just writing a file and reading a file. Piping is what I would like to do, but I have no idea how?

Hence my question.

I looked at iText in a different context and it worked well then but I would prefer to stay just within xsl:fo if possible.

Erwin


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Andreas L. Delmelle [mailto:a_l.delmelle@xxxxxxxxxx]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kloeck, Erwin
>
> I have to create several pdf-files out of one xml document.
> Currently I write several fo-files using redirect:write to disk
> during xsl processing and then read them in again for fo
> processing. This strikes me as sub optimal. Does anybody have
> any ideas or pointers for a more straight forward process, i.e.
> one not requiring the intermediate writing to disk?
>

Hi,

Just happens that I posed a question regarding support for this type of
scenario of fop-dev two days ago, so I'm more than interested in the way you
read the redirected files back in...

The way I understand it, the redirected files can be considered as
'side-effects' of the main transformation, but I was curious to find out in
what way a piped FO processor could keep track of these, and what would be
the best way of triggering a rendering-run for them (--redirection
extensions being an XSL processor-specific matter).

For the moment, depending on the actual requirements (i.e. whether you use
page-numbering in your XSL-FO) your best bet may be to try not to redirect,
keep them in a single fo:root and use a tool like iText
(http://www.lowagie.com/iText/) to cut up the pdf after processing.




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