RE: external-graphic

Hi Alexandre,

Well, mea culpa, I posted a link to recipe for Saxon 8 processor which is not used by XEP. The XEP formatter is using Saxon 6.5.

Anyway the posted link is a successor of the thread that does contain a solution for your problem. See here: http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200006/msg01332.html

Here is a snippet ready to use.

  <xsl:template name="file.check" xmlns:file="java.io.File" >
    <xsl:param name="filename" />
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="function-available('file:new')">
         <xsl:variable name="fileobj"
           select="file:new($filename)" />
         <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="not(file:exists($fileobj))">
                <xsl:value-of select="true()"/>
                <xsl:message>
                  <xsl:text>File name='</xsl:text>
                    <xsl:value-of select="$filename" />
                  <xsl:text>' exists.</xsl:text>
                </xsl:message>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:otherwise>
                <xsl:value-of select="false()"/>
                <xsl:message>
                  <xsl:text>File name='</xsl:text>
                    <xsl:value-of select="$filename" />
                  <xsl:text>' does not exist.</xsl:text>
                </xsl:message>
            </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:message>
          <xsl:text>WARNING : unable to call function 'file:new'</xsl:text>
        </xsl:message>
      </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:template>

See attached stylesheet for example how to use it.

Respectfully,
Volodymyr Rodymyuk

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
xmlns:file="java.io.File"
version="1.0">
  <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" />

  <xsl:variable name="image-url" select="'logo.jpg'"/>
  <!-- <xsl:variable name="image-url" select="'file:///D:/Temp/_XslFo/FileExtension/logo.jpg'"/> -->
  <!-- <xsl:variable name="image-url" select="'http://www.renderx.com/Images/logo.gif'"/> -->

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <fo:root>
        <fo:layout-master-set>
            <fo:simple-page-master margin-right="2.5cm" margin-left="2.5cm" margin-bottom="2cm" margin-top="1cm" page-width="21cm" page-height="29.7cm" master-name="first">
                <fo:region-body margin-top="3cm"/>
                <fo:region-before extent="3cm"/>
                <fo:region-after extent="1.5cm"/>
            </fo:simple-page-master>
        </fo:layout-master-set>
        <fo:page-sequence master-reference="first">
            <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
                <fo:block>
                    <xsl:variable name="exists">
                      <xsl:call-template name="file.check">
                         <xsl:with-param name="filename" select="$image-url"/>
                      </xsl:call-template>
                    </xsl:variable>
                    <xsl:choose>
                      <xsl:when test="$exists=true()">
                        <fo:external-graphic src="url({$image-url})"/>
                      </xsl:when>
                      <xsl:otherwise>NO IMAGE EXIST!</xsl:otherwise>
                    </xsl:choose>
                </fo:block>
            </fo:flow>
        </fo:page-sequence>
    </fo:root>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template name="file.check">
    <xsl:param name="filename" />
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="function-available('file:new')">
         <xsl:variable name="fileobj"
           select="file:new($filename)" />
         <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="not(file:exists($fileobj))">
                <xsl:value-of select="true()"/>
                <xsl:message>
                  <xsl:text>File name='</xsl:text>
                    <xsl:value-of select="$filename" />
                  <xsl:text>' exists.</xsl:text>
                </xsl:message>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:otherwise>
                <xsl:value-of select="false()"/>
                <xsl:message>
                  <xsl:text>File name='</xsl:text>
                    <xsl:value-of select="$filename" />
                  <xsl:text>' does not exist.</xsl:text>
                </xsl:message>
            </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:message>
          <xsl:text>WARNING : unable to call function 'file:new'</xsl:text>
        </xsl:message>
      </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>