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Subject: Re: [xsl] XML to PDF using XSL FO
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 18:22:43 -0400

Venkat,

When you say <xsl:copy-of select="."/> inside your block inside the flow, you're saying "copy the current node (with all its descendants) into the result". So your XML source is getting copied into your FO result, and your FO processor doesn't like it.

Try <xsl:apply-templates/> and see where that gets you....

Cheers,
Wendell

At 04:36 PM 6/27/2003, you wrote:
Hi:

I am trying to generate a PDF from XML using XSL FO.
Bascially the PDF file should contain original XML as it as with all the
elements.

I used the following stylesheet, but it fails while generating PDF saying
that unexpected element (my root node from the original xml) is found.

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-16"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
   <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
    <fo:layout-master-set>
      <fo:simple-page-master master-name="my-page">
         <fo:region-body margin="1in" />
      </fo:simple-page-master>
    </fo:layout-master-set>

    <fo:page-sequence master-reference="my-page">
      <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
        <fo:block><xsl:copy-of select="." /></fo:block>
      </fo:flow>
   </fo:page-sequence>
  </fo:root>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


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