Re: [xsl] FO question

["J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@xxxxxxxx>]

ryoko sato wrote:
> I want to display a text document from URL in a pdf file, but I have no idea
> how to write it in my xsl file. I’m also not sure if I can do that or not.
> Does anybody know it, please let me know.
> 
> I'm looking for the tag, which corresponds to that for an image,
> “external-graphics” because a resource of an image might be from URL. That
> is, I want to write something like this:

There is no such tag.
You can try various workarounds, including
implementing your own FO extension elements.

A simple possibility could be to declare
your text document as external parsed entity:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fo:root [
<!ENTITY text SYSTEM "http://foo/bar.text";>
]>
<fo:root>
  ...
    <fo:block>&text;</fo:block>

(Beware: Untested, and possibly dependent on
environment)
It is recommended to migrate your data into
an XML document, which is more amenable to
convenient processing.

J.Pietschmann


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