Greetings, all. I was hoping I could tap into your expertise once again. I
have written a stylesheet utilizing XSL-FO, and I have confirmed it is
well-formed by utilizing Internet Explorer. Now I would like to do two very
trivial things: validate my stylesheet and view the document. However, it
seems that neither is trivial. I have been told that the former is impossible
or at least very hard. That seems strange to me, for although the XSL-FO
specification is overwhelming in its size and complexity, it is still XML and a
stylesheet either meets the rules of its "parent" schema or it does not.
Please offer some clarification on the extent to which XSL-FO can be validated.
As for the latter issue, once my document is well-formed, how can I view it? I
have tried to utilize X-Smiles (which in turn utilizes FOP I believe) but all I
see is a blank window--no error messages or any such helpful things. This
probably means that the document is in fact not valid. Is there a way to have
X-Smiles be more descriptive? Or more generally what advice would you give for
rendering XSL-FO?
Thanks so much for your help.
Neil
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Neil Chaudhuri
Research Fellow
Systems Development & Technology Support
Logistics Management Institute
(571) 633-7786
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