From: G. Ken Holman (gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com)
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 19:36:17 PST
The XSL-FO 1.0 page-number citation facility is well-suited for the
generation of tables of content but ill-suited for back-of-the-book indexes
where the cited pages must be arbitrarily massaged into ranges and
singleton pages.
I've just implemented back-of-the-book indexes for the next edition cycle
of our electronic books. It mostly involves XSLT and XSL-FO 1.0 ... the
catch is to use the PDF output format for an intermediate pass and a
no-charge download for extracting text from PDF files. The model will work
for other final form print formats where the canvas content can be extracted.
I've distilled a working demonstration and the XSLT stylesheets for doing
this to illustrate the methodology. I introduced this methodology during
the question and answer period of Eliot Kimber's XSL-FO case study at the
Extreme Markup conference in Montréal last August. I only got the chance
to implement it last week.
Only one no-charge PDF to text download has been identified so far ... I'm
hoping other XSL-FO users will tell me of other tools meeting the free
criteria.
Please visit the "Resource Library (free developer tools)" link from our
home page cited below.
Feedback is welcome!
.................... Ken
-- Upcoming hands-on in-depth XSLT/XPath and/or XSL-FO: - North America: Feb 3 - Feb 7,2003 G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/f/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) ISBN 0-13-065196-6 Definitive XSLT and XPath ISBN 0-13-140374-5 Definitive XSL-FO ISBN 1-894049-08-X Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath ISBN 1-894049-10-1 Practical Formatting Using XSL-FO Next conference training: 2003-03-03,06 ------------------- (*) To unsubscribe, send a message with words 'unsubscribe xep-support' in the body of the message to majordomo@renderx.com from the address you are subscribed from. (*) By using the Service, you expressly agree to these Terms of Service http://www.renderx.com/tos.html
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