Re: [css2xslfo-support] producing empty FO output

[Werner D. <wer...@re...>]

Hi Aaron,

If you add the following rule for the "visits" element it should work:

visits
{
   region: body;
}

The notion of having regions stems from the fact that an XSL-FO document
is made up of regions and page sequences. For each new page sequence
I have to regenerate stuff starting from the element that represents the
body region.

I understand you are annoyed by that. It is, however, not so easy to
choose a default body region. At first sight the document element would
be a good candidate, but some XML languages define some preliminary meta
information. As a consequence, a lower element may have to be the body
region. I could scan the CSS files to check if some element already has
been assigned as the body region and use the document element if there
isn't one. However, it is not certain the rule would apply to any  
element
at all and moreover, the "style" attribute could have been used inside  
the
document to assign the body region. In order to solve this I would have
to examine the complete document first. This is not possible, because  
the
tool works as a streaming filter. That is to reduce memory consumption
for very large documents.

Best regards,

Werner.

On 15 Oct 2008, at 20:48, aro...@cl... wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm just getting started trying to use css2xslfo. At the moment, I  
> just want to see it produce an FO document but I'm getting a file  
> with zero bytes.
>
> I tried the following:
>
> java -Dbe.re.stack -jar css2xslfo1_6.jar visitDump.xml -fo  
> visitDump.fo
>
> I don't get any warnings of any sort. It chugs away but then creates  
> an empty "visitDump.fo" file.
>
> The xml source file is not xhtml, just pure xml. It looks something  
> like so:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet href="visitDump.css" type="text/css" media="all"?>
> <visits>
>         <protocol>
>                 <protocol_descriptor>Hello</protocol_descriptor>
>                 ...
>         </protocol>
>         ...
> </visits>
>
> Ultimately I'd like to connect it to FOP to produce a PDF but right  
> now, I'm not able to get it to do the FO part yet. Any ideas on what  
> I might be missing?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --  
> Aaron 
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