xsl-fo

I'm fairly new to XSLT and I am stuck with a problem where I have an Element with an unknown amount of children, and I need to display these children in a table such that there are 5-6 columns available to display the information. If I'm given an XML file that looks like this: <books> <book> <author>Ralls, Kim</author> <title>Midnight Rain</title> </book> <book> <author>Corets, Eva</author> <title>Maeve Ascendant</title> </book> <book> <author>Corets, Eva</author> <title>Oberon's Legacy</title> </book> <book> <author>Randall, Cynthia</author> <title>Lover Birds</title> </book> <book> <author

I need for my xsl:fo transformation an <fo:retrieve-marker> in an table but I don't know if this is possible because I use FOP Processor for my transformation. If i use the <fo:retrieve-marker> in my table I always get an error message that the tag has to be in an static content. Here is the table with the marker <xsl:call-template name="MMEL-Table-Header"/> <!-- Bottom table Line --> <fo:table-footer> <fo:table-row> <fo:table-cell> <fo:marker marker-class-name="footer-continued"> <fo:inline>(continued)</fo:inline></fo:marker> </fo:table-cell> </fo:table-row> </fo:table-footer> <fo:table-body

I'm trying to transform some XML-data to HTML with XSLT for my bachelor thesis. My professor wants me to consider XSL-FO too, or at least to write some word about it. But I'm very noob to this. So my questions are: Can I combine FO with HTML? Can I use FO istead of HTML and CSS? If yes, how will my browser render this? Are there any examples/tutorials on how to transform xml into web pages with FO? XSL-FO is for PDF display only (this is not strictly true, but you can take it as a guideline). So HTML output and FO output are not related. From your XML source, you can use XSLT to generate XHTML

The watered-down version of the problem I'm having is this. For an XML file like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <items> <item cols="1">Item 1</item> <item cols="1">Item 2</item> <item cols="1">Item 3</item> <item cols="1">Item 4</item> <item cols="1">Item 5</item> <item cols="1">Item 6</item> <item cols="1">Item 7</item> <item cols="1">Item 8</item> <item cols="1">Item 9</item> <item cols="2">Item 10</item> <item cols="1">Item 11</item> <item cols="1">Item 12</item> <item cols="1">Item 13</item> <item cols="1">Item 14</item> <item cols="1">Item 15</item> <item cols="1">Item 16</item>

I just started learning XSLT,now I am following some on-line tutorial of it,and I just have a simple question now: suppose we have a original xml file,do we need to write a XSLT Stylesheet to go with it,or do we just simply pass the xml file into some software like Stylus Studio(Saxon Engine),then it will do all these things automatically for us? Sorry for the mis clarification.I need to convert this .svg file to a pdf,I am just now at the beginning of the development,so really confused about the first step.Also,I would like to know,if my initial input is a .svg file,do I have to explicitly