[xep-support] Re:Single FO render to html and pdf

[Nikolai Grigoriev]

Jeffrey,

>   i have an FO file that can be converted to pdf using FOP.
> Can my same FO without html tag be use to generate HTML
> tags ...

Yes. FO is just a dialect of XML: all techniques to produce HTML
out of it (XSLT, Omnimark, or just CSS styling) are applicable.
(Surely, the conversion cannot be 100% precise: XSL FO defines
too many properties that HTML cannot grasp, even with CSS).

> ... using XEP???...

No. XEP converts FO to page-description languages, i.e. to formats
that fix position of each element on page. PDF and PostScript are
supported now; PCL, AFP, Metadata, and even SVG _could_ be
added as output format to XEP if the market demands it; but formats
like RTF, HTML, MS Word are all outside our scope. Such conversions
should be done by other tools.

> i have seen the sample fo2html.xsl ... it has html embed in it.

Yes; and what else do you expect an XML->HTML stylesheet to have inside???
I just cannot grasp what you mean.

> i can't get it to convert to pdf guess its solely for fo to html.....

But you already have XEP, FOP, Antenna House etc. to get PDF out of FO!
I am definitely missing something...

> so ... is it possible for a single fo file to be rendered to both pdf and
html???

YES. Run XEP or other formatter on a FO file, and you get PDF. Then run
any XSLT processor with fo2html.xsl as stylesheet, and you het HTML
_from the same FO file_. What else do you need?

Regards,
Nikolai Grigoriev
RenderX


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