FOP to print a book

["Lihn, Steve" <ho...@merck.com>]

Hi,
I am new to FOP. I am looking for a software that can generate
a book (chapters, sections, with TOC and index). FOP seems to be 
a good fit. Is there a documentaion or tools to explain how to do this?

I saw there is a pdf outline sample. But I need TOC (Table of content).
Also I saw an example that the section id is hard coded inot the xml.
How do I use an auto increment variable?

Thanks.

  Steve Lihn

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Re: FOP to print a book

["J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>]

Lihn, Steve wrote:

> I am new to FOP. I am looking for a software that can generate
> a book (chapters, sections, with TOC and index). FOP seems to be 
> a good fit. Is there a documentaion or tools to explain how to do this?

Look at the "Where to start" and "XSLFO" sections in the XSL FAQ
reachable from
  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/


> I saw there is a pdf outline sample. But I need TOC (Table of content).

A table of contents...is currently best implemented as a table:
  <fo:table>
    <fo:table-column column-width="10cm"/>
    <fo:table-column column-width="2cm"/>
    <fo:table-body>
      <fo:table-row>
        <fo:table-cell>
          <fo:block>Section 1<fo:leader leader-pattern="dots"/></fo:block>
        </fo:table-cell>
        <fo:table-cell>
          <fo:block text-align="right"><fo:leader
              leader-pattern="dots"/><fo:page-number-citation
              ref-id="stuff"/></fo:block>
        </fo:table-cell>
      </fo:table-row>
    </fo:table-body>
  </fo:table>

 > Also I saw an example that the section id is hard coded inot the xml.
 > How do I use an auto increment variable?

You can't, and you dont need. This is a XSLT VFAQ, check the source above.
For the task of generating IDs use, well, the generate-id() function.

J.Pietschmann

Re: FOP to print a book

[Konstantin Priblouda <kp...@yahoo.com>]

--- "Lihn, Steve" <ho...@merck.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to FOP. I am looking for a software that
> can generate
> a book (chapters, sections, with TOC and index). FOP
> seems to be 
> a good fit. Is there a documentaion or tools to
> explain how to do this?
FP is not what exactly you are looking for. It's 
XSL Formatter - it can render your xsl-fo into PDF

To create XSL-FO there are a lot of solutions - like
docbook, anakia etc. 

regards,

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