xsl attribute sets supported

Scott Meikle 28 posts 228 karma points

Feb 11, 2015 @ 15:53

XSL Attribute Sets - Supported ?

Hello,

I am having a problem getting basic XSL attribute sets working. My simplified example :

<xsl:attribute-set name="foo">
    <xsl:attribute name="border">1px solid black</xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:attribute name="z-index">0</xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:attribute name="position">absolute</xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:attribute name="left">0.58in</xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:attribute name="top">2.56in</xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:attribute name="height">2.35in</xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:attribute name="width">3.45in</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:attribute-set>

<fo:block-container xsl:use-attribute-sets="foo">
</fo:block-container>

This should put a rectangle with a black border at the given position on the page. However, on my output page the styling attributes aren't applied and consequently nothing appears.

On the other hand, when I set the attributes directly on the fo:block-container element like so :

<fo:block-container border="1px solid black" z-index="0"
                    position="absolute"
                    left="0.58in" top="2.56in"
                    height="2.35in" width="3.45in">
</fo:block-container>

...the output displays as expected.

With regards to the PDF Creator, am I missing something obvious or are XSL attribute sets not supported? I would be most grateful if someone could knock up a simple working example to get me going.

Kind regards,

Scott

P.S. my code is in a Razor macro directly within an Umbraco document template, not in an XSLT macro, if that makes any difference.

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Kate BP 5 posts 25 karma points

May 27, 2015 @ 14:48

After 3 months I'm unlikely to get a response, but does anyone know if attribute sets are supported? I'm having the exact same problem.

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Mehul Gajjar 48 posts 172 karma points

May 27, 2015 @ 15:35

Hi Scott,

Yes you can set attribute in your xslt like below and also set out put method as "html"

 <xsl:output method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>

<xsl:attribute-set name="table-attrs">
    <xsl:attribute name="style">
        border: 1px solid red;
    </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:attribute-set>


<table xsl:use-attribute-sets="table-attrs">

    do some code

</table>

Hope it will help you

Regrds,

Mehul Gajjar.

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Kate BP 5 posts 25 karma points

Jun 01, 2015 @ 10:18

As far as I can see, the example about does not work with the xsl-fo used by the PDF creator?

I can't even get the table to display when I insert it into my code, ignoring the styling issue. I am currently outputting the page content using FO-BLOCK and FO_INLINE.

From the top of the file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
@using FergusonMoriyama.Pdf
@using System.Xml
@using umbraco.IO
@
    Layout = null;

    Response.ContentType = "text/xsl";
    Response.AppendHeader("X-Pdf-Render","true"); //-- Comment out to show generated XML</p>

    // -- Uncomment this to force the browser to download the PDF.
    // Response.AppendHeader("X-Pdf-Force-Download","darren.pdf");
}
 <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" version="2.0" 
        xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
@* This assigns attributes to attribute-set(s) [classes] *@
<xsl:attribute-set name="kate-test">
<xsl:attribute name="fname">Arial</xsl:attribute>
  <xsl:attribute name="size">64px</xsl:attribute>
  <xsl:attribute name="color">red</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:attribute-set>
    <xsl:template match="/">
    <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:ibex="http://www.xmlpdf.com/2003/ibex/Format" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
           @* Sets standard PDF Metadata *@
         <ibex:properties
       title="@CurrentPage.Name"
       author="@CurrentPage.WriterName"
       subject=""
       creator="PDF Creator for Umbraco" />
          <fo:layout-master-set>
            <fo:simple-page-master master-name="master" page-width="210mm" page-height="297mm" margin-top="1cm" margin-bottom="1cm" margin-left="1cm" margin-right="1cm">
              <fo:region-body margin-top="1.5cm" margin-bottom="1.5cm" column-count="2" column-gap="0.5cm"/>
              <fo:region-before region-name="header" extent="3cm"/>
              <fo:region-after region-name="footer" extent="1.5cm"/>
            </fo:simple-page-master>
          </fo:layout-master-set>
          
           @* Main content starts within page sequence *@
           <fo:page-sequence master-reference="master">

        @* Document header *@
        <fo:flow flow-name="header">
          <fo:block>
            <fo:inline font-family="Arial" font-size="23pt" color="#3399ff">
              @CurrentPage.Name
            </fo:inline>
          </fo:block>
 <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="kate-test">
 Block rocking beats
 </fo:block> 
        </fo:flow>

//----- fie continues to file footer, body and helper functions ------

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Thanks

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