RE: [xsl] XSLT transform XSL-FO to CSS

[DPawson at rnib dot org dot uk]

Garry wrote:
> Can anyone help.  I need to generate CSS sheets from XML and 
> I thought it 
> would be nice to write the CSS structure in FO and then 
> transform it into 
> the various different CSS formats for different browsers etc.
> 
> Does anyone know if there are any XSL-FO to CSS XSLT tranform 
> sheets around 
> that might help me get started?

Mmm. That's an interesting one.

I think you need a part of the XSLT as well.
The template which generates the xsl-fo will tell you 
which element is being styled, due to CSS shouting, most
of the xsl-fo language is identical to the CSS so that
shouldn't be too hard.


Suggest:
  <xsl:template match ="blurt">
    <x:tag>blurt </x:tag>  (or a comment)
    <fo:block
	font-weight="12pt"
      etc


then use xslt on the xsl:fo to extract the mix of 
elements / styling to generate the css?
 
<xsl:template match="xsl:template">
<xsl:value-of select="x:tag"/> {
	<xsl:for-each select="@*">
  <xsl:value-of select="name()"/> :<xsl:value-of select="."/>;





sounds not unreasonable ?
   You are going to fall foul of the places where fo and css didn't get into
bed.
It would take some filtering, may not be worth it except for the last 15%.

Any comments?

regards DaveP.


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