Please provide the input FO file, not the input XML/XSLT files. FOP's proper input is the FO file. The XML to FO translation is a preprocessor convenience function unrelated to FO processing.
You can create the FO file (mini.fo.xml) as follows: fop -c mini-fo.cfg -xml mini.xml -xsl mini.fo -foout mini.fo.xml On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Raphael Finkel <[email protected]> wrote: > Quick summary: RTL inserts in a bi-directional document modify the > directionality of brackets following those inserts. > > I am using Apache fop-1.1 on Ubuntu 12.04.2 to generate PDF output from > XML. > > File mini.xml: > > <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> > <data> > <notes><br/>[1] RTL insert קום <br/>[2] (parens > wrong).<br/>[3] Back to normal because of this RTL insert: בּ > .</notes> > </data> > > File mini.fo: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" > xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; > xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"; > > > <xsl:template match="/"> > <fo:root> > <fo:layout-master-set> > <fo:simple-page-master master-name="myPage"> > <fo:region-body /> > </fo:simple-page-master> > </fo:layout-master-set> > <fo:page-sequence master-reference="myPage"> > <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body"> > <fo:block font-family="FreeSans"> > <xsl:apply-templates > select="data/notes"/> > </fo:block> > </fo:flow> > </fo:page-sequence> > </fo:root> > </xsl:template> > <xsl:template match="br"> > <fo:block></fo:block> > </xsl:template> > </xsl:stylesheet> > > File mini-fo.cfg: > > <fop version="1.0"> > <renderers> > <renderer mime="application/pdf"> > <fonts> > <font > metrics-url="FreeSans.xml" > > embed-url="/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf" > > > <font-triplet name="FreeSans" > style="normal" weight="normal"/> > </font> > </fonts> > </renderer> > </renderers> > </fop> > > Invocation of fop-1.1: > > /tmp/fop-1.1/fop -c mini-fo.cfg -xml mini.xml -xsl mini.fomini.pdf > > I attach mini.pdf. You can also see its contents by looking at what > pdftotext outputs: > > [1] RTL insert קום > ]2[ )parens wrong(. > [3] Back to normal because of this RTL insert: ּ. ב > > (There are some Unicode \u202b (RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING) and \u202c (POP > DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING) characters in that pdftotext output.) > > When I use xmlroff instead of fop, the result is correct: > > [1] RTL insert קום > [2] (parens wrong). > [3] Back to normal because of this RTL insert: ּ . ב > > Raphael > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >
