Replacing elements

[Alex McLintock <al...@my-deja.com>]

Hi folks, 

This may demonstrate ignorance on my part so feel free to say "go read so and so document". 

I have a single fo template which I want to fill in with an image and some text. Rather than generating a new fo file every time the previous developer loaded up the fo file using a DOMParser, - and used some fake tags such as "<Date/>" or "<parameterValue0/>".
These would then be replaced by their actuial values like:

replaceNode(doc.getElementsByTagName("parameterName0").item(0),
     doc.createTextNode('Name of Parameter0'));

Or to change the image location 

Element inlineGraphic = (Element)doc.getElementsByTagName("fo:inline-graphic").item(0);
        inlineGraphic.setAttribute("href", imgURL);

All this worked with FOP 0.13

Is this still doable with the latest version of FOP? 
I realise that inline-graphic has changed to external graphic, and that href has changed to src. I am worried about the fact that "<Date/>" and "<parameterName0/>" aren't in the fo namespace...

Is anyone doing this with an embedded FOP from cvs? or are you all just using it in the command line?

Alex


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Re: Replacing elements

[Markus Holmberg <ma...@acc.umu.se>]

Hi Alex..

I have been using (almost) the same approach as you for a while now, and
with several different versions of FOP (up to the current in CVS now),
and it has always worked.

I need to simply change parts of text (but don't wan't to do the
XML/XSLT part again) so I have a serialized Document object which I
deserialize and search for nodes with a specific attribute (in my case I
named it "fid" for field id). This attribute can be added to for example
an fo:inline element. FOP will ignore unknown attributes (I'm not sure
if it's ok to add unknown attributes really, but it works).

An all this is embedded in a servlet.

Regards, Markus.


On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 06:44:27AM -0700, Alex McLintock wrote:
> Hi folks, 
> 
> This may demonstrate ignorance on my part so feel free to say "go read so and so document". 
> 
> I have a single fo template which I want to fill in with an image and some text. Rather than generating a new fo file every time the previous developer loaded up the fo file using a DOMParser, - and used some fake tags such as "<Date/>" or "<parameterValue0/>".
> These would then be replaced by their actuial values like:
> 
> replaceNode(doc.getElementsByTagName("parameterName0").item(0),
>      doc.createTextNode('Name of Parameter0'));
> 
> Or to change the image location 
> 
> Element inlineGraphic = (Element)doc.getElementsByTagName("fo:inline-graphic").item(0);
>         inlineGraphic.setAttribute("href", imgURL);
> 
> All this worked with FOP 0.13
> 
> Is this still doable with the latest version of FOP? 
> I realise that inline-graphic has changed to external graphic, and that href has changed to src. I am worried about the fact that "<Date/>" and "<parameterName0/>" aren't in the fo namespace...
> 
> Is anyone doing this with an embedded FOP from cvs? or are you all just using it in the command line?
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> www.DiverseBooks.com www.zz9.org www.charming-underclothes.org.uk
> www.SFLink.net www.inversity.co.uk
> 
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