I have the following abc.xml snippet.
<abc>Images\Image.JPG</abc>
and I want to display this image on a PDF. I am using Apache FOP to translate my XML to PDF using XSL-FO. Unfortunately, I cannot figure out a clever way to replace the backslashes as forward slashes. Here is some xsl code I'm playing with:
<fo:external-graphic>
<xsl:variable name="fixTest">file:///<xsl:value-of select="abc"/>
<xsl:attribute name="src" select="'{translate(@fixTest, '\','/')}'"/>
</fo:external-graphic>
I also have some code that I've been trying to be to no avail. Now I know once I figure out how to replace '\' with '/' with the XSL-FO file, I will be able to display my image. However right now I cannot figure out how to do that.
<xsl:attribute name="src"><xsl:value-of select="concat('file:///',translate(@abc, '\', '/'))"/></xsl:attribute>
Does anyone have any idea how I can translate '\' into '/' in my text value of element abc so I can also concatenate file:/// onto that value and set it as my src attribute for fo:external-graphic?
This was a bit too long to write in comments, but in your question you show you are doing this...
<xsl:attribute name="src" select="'{translate(@fixTest, '\','/')}'"/>
(Although, as you went on to show, it should really be . here, not @fixTest)
But, this means you have apostrophes nested in a string delimited by apostrophes, which is a syntax error. So, you should have written this to make it syntactically correctly.
<xsl:attribute name="src" select="'{translate(@fixTest, "\","/")}'"/>
But this would have shown you what the problem was. select expects an expression. By using delimiting the expression with apostrophes, you have turned it into a string literal, so the expression does not get evaluated. But you didn't need to use apostrophes or curly braces here. You should have written this....
<xsl:attribute name="src" select="translate(., '\', '\')"/>
Or, to add the "file:///" prefix....
<xsl:attribute name="src" select="concat('file:///',translate(., '\', '/'))"/>
But there is an even easy way, one where the curly braces (also known as Attribute Value Templates) do apply, and that is to write this...
<fo:external-graphic src="file:///{translate(., '\', '/')}">
Here, the src attribute does expect a string, and the curly braces are then used to evaluate an expression instead.