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Subject: Re: [xsl] xsl-fo templates for svg
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:30:54 -0400
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Karl,
At 01:23 AM 8/27/2008, you wrote:
Is anyone extending xsl-fo with custom xsl/svg templates? For
example: an xsl template which return text rotated or a template
which produces pie charts (expressed as svg), etc... I'd be
interested in what has been done in this area.
Outside the context of XSL-FO, I've done plenty of SVG generation via
XSLT, and it works fine with XSL-FO. (I've generally coupled it with
XSL-FO fairly loosely but there's no reason it has to be done that
way.) I presented and wrote about this (although at a theoretical
level, not in much technical detail) at
http://www.idealliance.org/proceedings/xml04/papers/156/piez-xml2004-ideadb.html
http://www.idealliance.org/papers/extreme/proceedings/html/2005/Piez01/EML2005Piez01.html
You should also look into the SVG conferences, where this topic is
bound to get treatment.
The bottom line is yes, it's feasible, and if you can hack
computational XSLT, no it's not hard. Indeed, the design questions
(including determining which sorts of operations are worth the
trouble of automating and maintaining in such a framework) are
probably harder than the implementation.
Because the XSLT is computational, for more than trivial sorts of
things I imagine you'll be wanting to use XSLT 2.0.
Cheers,
Wendell
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