Xsl

[AtW]

Whoever designed XSL should be stoned (not by smoking hash).

[Numptycorner]

Are we talking Peugeot 306?

[HankWangford]

one line

xsl is fine, as long as the file contains one line that is a call out to an extension function that does all the work and returns a nice string for the xsl to display

[Cowboy Bob]

It's only X-Path queries over an XML document. Pretty straightforward and logical IMO.

[DimPrawn]

XSL is for hard men.

[Numptycorner]

that would be XXL

[CaribbeanPirate]

We’ve just entered the testing phase of a project using XSL-FO to convert XML to PDF for the reports. It sounded a good idea when we planed it.

However, ……

[Fleetwood]

planned

[AtW]

ok, tell me how to do the following using fking XSL: I have got report that I want to be modular (thus easily customisable without much work), to do that I keep header, body and footer of the report in separate files. This means that header needs to output TABLE tag - only starting one, there is no closure in THAT template. The fking thing does not like the fact that unclosed (in that template) tag is generated ffs!

[Cowboy Bob]

We’ve just entered the testing phase of a project using XSL-FO to convert XML to PDF for the reports. It sounded a good idea when we planed it.

However, ……

I used Apache FOP to convert XML data into PDFs for council planning applications. Boring subject, but not too hard... What problems have you had? Apache FOP has a generator to output XSL stylesheets from a PDF, so first create your desired PDF report format, pipe it through the generator, and then tweak it to the data that you're receiving.