Publishing with XML - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v4.02, by Dr. Herong Yang
Formatting XSL-FO Files to Text Files Using FOP
This section provides an example of formatting an XSL-FO file to a text file with FOP.
Let's format hello.fo into a text file with the following command:
fop -fo hello.fo -txt hello.txt
You should see the following on the screen:
[INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser [INFO] FOP 0.20.5rc2 [INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser [INFO] building formatting object tree [INFO] setting up fonts [INFO] rendering areas to TEXT [INFO] [1] [INFO] Parsing of document complete, stopping renderer [INFO] writing out TEXT
The output tells us that the xerces SAXParser was used to parse the XSL-FO file, and one page of output was formatted.
If you open the output file, hello.txt, with any text editor, you should see:
Hello world! ...
This is perfect.
Table of Contents
Ideas on Publishing Books using XML
Overview of hyPub - A Simple XML Publishing Tool
Writing Book Contents in XHTML Source Files
Transforming Book Source Files with XSL Technology
Designing Web Page Layouts with Tables
Controlling Web Page Appearance with CSS
Sharing HTML Codes with JavaScript Files
Generating Web Pages with hyPub
►Formatting Printable Documents with XSL-FO
What Is XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects)
Example of XSL-FO Document - hello.fo
Installing Apache FOP - XSL-FO Processor
►Formatting XSL-FO Files to Text Files Using FOP
Formatting XSL-FO Files to PDF Files Using FOP
Formatting XML Files to PDF Files with XSLT
Tranforming XML Files with XSLT Stylesheets