Re: FO preprocessor

jordibuj@badalona.vilaweb.com wrote:

> I'm writing some kind of "merge" preprocessor for a FO
> document.
> The FO document would contain XML tags from a new namespace
> (the mrg namespace) melted with the actual content.
> The merge preprocessor would generate a new FO document
> with FO tags and content untouched but would process mrg
> tags for instance by querying a database.
>
> Question would be: experienced FO guys would say that this
> is a good approach?

Why not? That's all happens on xsl transformation stage and who said it should 
be a trivial one? Transform your source as you wish, just make sure at the end 
you are producing valid result tree.

-- 
Oleg Tkachenko
eXperanto team
Multiconn Technologies, Israel

Received on Tuesday, 29 October 2002 10:38:06 UTC