This is my first attempt at calling an external Java method to do work on
behalf of
a stylesheet. I'm not a Java developer so I think I need a fairly complete
"cookbook"
description of how to do this. My objective is to determine the exact length,
in pixels,
of a given string based on the font and font size in play.
I'm sure I have two problems here. (1) to properly bind my stylesheet to a
Java name
space and (2) proper use of the Java methods that parse my font and return the
metrics I'm looking for.
Following is my failed stylesheet, annotated with comments explaining what I am
"trying" to do at each step. I am very certain that I am not properly telling
whomever
which font I am using.
I am working within the <oXygen/> IDE (Saxon8) and have successfully gotten
the example on
page 134 of Michael's XSLT 2.0 3rd Edition to work. This tells me that I am
somewhat
successful in using Java extensions.
When I process this stylesheet I get the following error:
Cannot find a matching 0-argument function named
{ext://java.awt.FontMetrics}getFontMetrics()
Unfortunately this error message doesn't tell me if the problem is that I'm
not finding
the Java method or if I'm finding it but not using it properly.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version="2.0"
xmlns:FontMetrics="ext://java.awt.FontMetrics">
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="tstString" select="'Hello World'"/>
<!-- declair a font and fontsize - not shure who is listening to this -->
FontMetrics:Font("helveticaWorld", Font.PLAIN, 10)
<!-- obtain the metrics for the specified font -->
<xsl:variable name="metrics">
<xsl:value-of select="FontMetrics:getFontMetrics()"/>
</xsl:variable>
<!-- obtain the length in pixels of the test string -->
<xsl:variable name="resultStringLength">
<xsl:value-of select="metrics.stringWidth($tstString)"/>
</xsl:variable>
<!-- display the result -->
<xsl:message>result:<xsl:value-of
select="$resultStringLength"/></xsl:message>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Thanks in advance for you help. Please keep in mind that I am not a Java
developer at all
so nothing is obvious to me.
Steve Ylvisaker
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