Subject: Re: xsl for formatting From: Chuck White <chuck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 19:13:37 -0800 |
on 3/9/2000 5:28 PM, violet wright at xsl9@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 1) Should those of us who work primarily 'creatively' forget about xsl and > stick to css and html? I can provide one scenario that is *not* yet database-driven that we have tried successfully that you might be able to relate to as a creative. We have a lot of clients who run display ads but use the text as in-column classifieds in other papers. We start with a Quark XPress document and convert it to XML using avenue.quark, which enables us to prepare it for a variety of output using XSL. We can then use XSL to output text documents into newspaper classified advertising markup systems from that same originating Quark document. The beauty of XSL is that it allows us to key in on the elements we want to process. We can then send our clients PDF files of that same output by just running it through James Tauber's FOP program. FOP is available at http://xml.apache.org/fop/index.html So now we have several versions of the originating document: 1) the original Quark doc created by our graphic artists 2) An XML version created by avenue.quark 3) Markup created by XT that outputs the markup the newspapers want from the XML file. 4.) A PDF of that marked-up ad so that the client sees a reasonable facsimile of the ad as it will appear in the paper. > 2) Are there any 'complete' examples of xml using xsl primarily for > formatting, that anyone knows of, that are IE5 renderable? I don't know exactly what you mean by IE5 renderable, but you can visit http://javertising.com/webtech/xsldemo.htm to view an IE5-based demo of an XSL tutorial. It's not a finished version AND ONLY WORKS with IE5. It shows some examples of XSL in use with IE5. You can also view a very early look at how our firm be managing internet job postings with XSL at: http://www.postsmart.com/service/posts/jobpost.asp -- It only works in IE5 cuz it uses XML data islands. Actually, we're not going to use asp in our production environment, but the sample kind of shows what we're up to, in that it takes a form and returns an html page created from an XSL file. Our final site will be driven by Oracle, so the technology is quite different. The actual formatting language for XSL can be found at: http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/ This is the language James Tauber's program uses to output PDF files. You'll find its semantics familiar if you've been in the graphics arts biz awhile. Look at the editors' affiliations and you'll understand the need to be aware of developments in this arena. good luck. -- Chuck White Creative Director ADVANCE Recruitment Advertising, Inc. chuck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PH: (650) 261-1060 FAX: (650) 261-1061 http://www.advancerecruitment.com author of Internet Explorer 5 Developer's Guide, IDG Books co-author Mastering XML, Sybex Books XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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