[xep-support] Re: RenderX XEP Server : Using user-defined functions?

What you describe can easily be accomplished within the XML+XSL process
(meaning XSLT transformation) to XSL FO (not within XSL FO itself).

See this article and research calling Java classes from XSLT/Saxon:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12761744/call-java-instance-methods-in-xs
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Kevin Brown

RenderX

From: xep-support-bounces@renderx.com
[mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com] On Behalf Of Nicolas Dubien
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 5:19 AM
To: xep-support@renderx.com
Subject: [xep-support] RenderX XEP Server : Using user-defined functions?

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am looking for an XLS-FO engine that can fit with my current architecture.
I am already using other engines which are based on other technologies -
not-XSL-FO. In our current architecture we are using user-defined functions
to add our proper features to the engine.

As a matter of fact, I was wondering if it is possible to integrate
user-defined functions in my XSL-FO templates and define them in Java. Then
your engine will call my Java function if necessary. I did not find any
solutions to do this on your website.

Here are examples of functions I would like to be able to call from your
engine during the generation:
 * getResourceUrl("my resource name")
 * ChangeCase($first_name_from_xml, "Upper")
 * GetId($first_name_from_xml, $last_name_from_xml)

One of the engines I am using for the moment is FreeMarker, it has this
feature. It allows developers to wrap their own objects and send them to
their engine.

cf.
http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/api/freemarker/template/Template.html
#process%28java.lang.Object,%20java.io.Writer,%20freemarker.template.ObjectW
rapper%29

I am looking forward to hearing from you,

Nicolas DUBIEN

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Received on Wed Jun 26 10:58:46 2013