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At 2011-09-27 13:24 +0000, Sharon Harris wrote:
I am trying to dynamically create active hyperlinks in PDF output using XSL-FO. The code I am using traverses the Release_Notes_Documentation node, which then calls the hyperlink template that specifies instructions for finding a string beginning w/ http:// and turning that string into a basic link. Everything looks great in the PDF output as the links display as active. I suggest looking at the intermediate result of XSLT transformation before looking at your code. Carefully inspect every <fo:basic-link> that you create and determine if there is a difference between the first one and the remainder. If not, it could be a problem with your XSL-FO engine. If so, then it is a problem with assumptions in your XSLT. In the classroom I remind students of the debugging value of the intermediate XSL-FO output: it is the first place I look when I have inconsistent output. Staring at my code doesn't help because I should have done it right the first time around. Inspecting the XSL-FO generated usually at least reveals my mistakes, if not how they were made. And to help with the debug, I will often inject diagnostic information in comments in my XSL-FO. This is new to students who have already used XSL-FO. Since an XSL-FO engine ignores the comments, I can find the XSL-FO that is rendered near where I have problems and inspect the comments to correlate behaviours in my stylesheets. I hope this helps. . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
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