Re: [xsl] how to translate XML with XHTML-formatted element to FO

[Alex Milowski <alexml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 12, 2005, at 11:12 AM, Magic Finger wrote:

> how can I translate XML files (like the following), which contain
> XHTML-formatted text in one element, to PDF using Apache FOP ?
>
>  --- books.xml --->
>  <BOOK>
>    <AUTHOR>Walt Disney</AUTHOR>
>    <PRICE>19.90</PRICE>
>    <TITLE>&lt;b&gt;Donald Duck - &lt;i&gt;The True Story&lt;/i&gt;
> &lt;/b&gt;</TITLE>
>  </BOOK>
>
>  <BOOK>
>    <AUTHOR>Matt Groening</AUTHOR>
>    <PRICE>25.00</PRICE>
>    <TITLE>&lt;b&gt;Homer Simpson For President&lt;/b&gt;</TITLE>
>  </BOOK>
>    ...
>  <--- books.xml ---

You can translate the escape XHTML with a  XML pipeline as implemented
by the smallx [1] project at java.net:

<p:pipe name="xhtml-convert"
   xmlns:p="urn:publicid:IDN+smallx.com:pipeline:1.0";
>

<p:subtree select="TITLE">
<p:parse/>
</p:subtree>

</p:pipe>

That will convert:

   <TITLE>&lt;b&gt;Homer Simpson For President&lt;/b&gt;</TITLE>

to:

   <TITLE><b xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>Homer Simpson For 
President</b></TITLE>

You can also "trap" parse errors:

<p:pipe name="xhtml-convert"
   xmlns:p="urn:publicid:IDN+smallx.com:pipeline:1.0";
>

<p:subtree select="TITLE">

<p:trap>

<p:parse/>

<p:on-error>
<p:template>
<TITLE bad="true"><xsl:copy-of select="/*/node()"/></TITLE>
</p:template>
</p:on-error>

</p:trap>

</p:subtree>

</p:pipe>

[1] http://smallx.dev.java.net

-- Alex Milowski  

"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of 
the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."

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