Re: FO->Area as XSLT extension function

On 21.3.2013 3:02, Arved Sandstrom wrote:

> After about 3 hours of reading Saxon Java API docs and hacking, the
> closest I ever got was locating the DOMEnvelope class, but evidently
> that's not the right thing either. I messed around with PJConverters but
> they don't appear to understand DOM Nodes.
> 
> It appears that Saxon passes the FO node tree variable in as a
> TinyDocumentImpl, which implements no W3C DOM stuff.This is the nub of
> the problem.
> 
> Anyone way more familiar with the Saxon 9 HE Java API who might have
> some ideas? Thanks.

I think that for such Saxon specific question it will be better to ask
at saxon-help mailing list
(https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/saxon-help)

IIRC Saxon can be configured to operate on DOM trees instead of its
TinyTree object model -- then you will not be forced to convert back and
forth DOM in order to interface with FOP.

    Jirka

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