> Hi George;
> 
> The XSL produces an FO document as output which is in turn returned to me as
> a string in java.
> 
> The present system does just what you have suggested and I use regular
> expressions to replace certain tags and strip the remaining ones.

Your problem appears to be rather that your input doesn't have tags but
rather an XML quoted string.


> After this the string is passed to FOP to generate a PDF.
> 
> I don't like that you need to change java code to modify how certain HTML
> tags are converted to FO tags. It seems I don't have any other choice
> though.
> 

There are almost certainly other choices but I don't think that you have
really described your problem in sufficient detail for anyone to suggest
a solution.

> Thanks,
> 

David


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