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<DIV><SPAN class=473110215-04102005><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Hello,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=473110215-04102005><FONT face=Arial size=2>We are encountering
a problem where we require FO output.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=473110215-04102005><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=473110215-04102005><FONT face=Arial size=2>We would like to
generate FO from an XSLT stylesheet and then generate our PDF from that FO
using XEP (rather than doing both in one step).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=473110215-04102005><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=473110215-04102005><FONT face=Arial size=2>The reason for this
is that we have FO elements embedded in our XML document. These
FO elements are to be passed through when the style sheet is applied to the
XML so that they can be treated as FO during the PDF generation. However,
when this process is done in one step, these embedded FO elements are
not reparsed, and are interpreted as being one child of a node on
the tree. If we use another XSLT processor to generate the FO output and
then use XEP to generate the PDF from this FO, the tree is reparsed, and the FO
is interpreted correctly. However, the XSLT processor we are using to
do this is introducing many more formatting problems, and I would rather use
XEP's technology for both steps if possible.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=473110215-04102005><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=473110215-04102005><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have two
questions. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=473110215-04102005><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=473110215-04102005><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there any way we
can get XEP's XSLT transformation to produce FO output?
</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=473110215-04102005><FONT face=Arial size=2>Is there any way we
can get XEP to reparse the FO data before the PDF file is generated
?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=473110215-04102005><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=473110215-04102005><FONT face=Arial size=2>I only need one of
these to be a 'yes' in order to fix my problem. If both of these answers
are currently 'no' , then when can we expect these features to be added into
forthcoming versions?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=473110215-04102005><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=473110215-04102005><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=473110215-04102005><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=473110215-04102005><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bob
Cirilli</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>