Adding FO blocks through <XSL:If> statements?

[jfrost10]

Hey guys,

Here's the sitch:

I pass my xsl an xml documen that looks something like this:

<Char Value=&quot;S&quot; Bold=&quot;True&quot; />
<Char Value=&quot;o&quot; Bold=&quot;True&quot; />
<Char Value=&quot;s&quot; Italic=&quot;True&quot; />

What I want to do in my xsl is something like this:
<xsl:if test=&quot;Bold='True'&quot;>
<fo:block font-weight=&quot;bold&quot;></fo:block>
</xsl:if>

Of course, if that code was working, i wouldn't be posting


Anyone have any insight on how I can check a property of my xml node, and assign an fo property to that nodes value?

Thanks,

Jack

 

[Nosferatu]

To check the node attribute you can use the @ character, like:

<xsl:if test=&quot;@Bold='True'&quot;>
   <fo:block font-weight=&quot;bold&quot;></fo:block>
</xsl:if>

Secondly, be sure you add the FO namespace at the beginning of your stylesheet, or you'll get plenty error messages.
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[jfrost10]

Hey Nos,

Thanks man, thats definatley a step in the right direction for me.

Question though: whatever I want shown needs to be within the fo:block tags, right (I could be wrong)? So how would I go about something adding fo:block attributes for multiple attributes.

i.e.
<xsl:if test = &quot;@Bold='True'&quot;>
Add the font-weight property to the fo block
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test = &quot;@Italic='True'&quot;>
Add an italic property (whatever that is) to the SAME
fo:block
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test = &quot;@Underline='True'&quot;>
see above, but some underline attribute, again to the
same fo:block
</xsl:if

Thanks again!

Jack

 

[Nosferatu]

No problem Jack...

>> Question though: whatever I want shown needs to be within the fo:block tags, right (I could be wrong)?

Everything that's btw. those tags gets formatted with the rules there.

I am not sure about this, but what about adding those ifs within the <fo:block> element?
I really don't know much about fo, but this is the way I'd do it...

Or else, you can try to combine the if statements with and.

<xsl:if test = &quot;@Bold='True' and @Italic='True'&quot;>
    Add the font-weight property to the fo block
</xsl:if>

or, imbricate the if's... [red]Nosferatu[/red]
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There's no such thing as free meal...
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[jfrost10]

I tried doing that already, but it doesn't seem to like it

I can do

<fo:block
xsl:do something in one line

but if I try this:
<fo:block
<xsl:if test=this>
do this
</xsl:if>

the rest of the fo block displays black (instead of the normal color scheme that my editor gives it), leading me to think that it doesn't like extra < or > tags within the block.

I could do the And thing, but then I'd have to have an and for every combination

Bold Italics Underlined
Bold
Bold Underlined
Bold Italics
Italics Underlined
etc.

and that could get a bit messy.

sigh...</me grumbles about my users>

btw, the suggestion you gave initially worked, and I can actually get bold output on my pdf! So thanks for that, it was great to finally see some progress!


Jack

 

[jfrost10]

Hey guys,

Just wanted to let you know that I think I found a solution to my problem. You can view the document that explains the process at

http://xml.web.cern.ch/XML/www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect3/bk/ch08.html

Thanks,

Jack