Assignment
Converting XML to XSL-FO

The object of this assignment is to write an XSLT stylesheet that will transform a movie database to an XSL-FO document, which can then be converted to a PDF file. Your final PDF file should look like this.

The XML File

The XML file you should use is a modified version of the XML file from assignment 4. Here it is. The changes are:

• Each <actor> has a <name> and optional <role>
• The <reviewer> element is now a sibling of its of <review>, not a child element. (Having it as a child element was a bad design.)

The Conversion - Requirements

• The entire document should be set in Times font, 12 point, unless specified otherwise.
• The page master should have margins of one half inch on all sides.
• The region-before is one half inch tall, and contains the words Movie List - your name, right aligned in 10 point type.
• The region-after is one half inch tall, and contains the word Page followed by the page number, centered, also in ten point type.
• Movies must be sorted in order of the year in which they were made.

For each movie:

• There is a one em space after each movie.
• Titles are set in 18 point type, and the stars are in 14 point.
• Information about the country year and running time appear on one line.
• This is followed by color information. Black and white movies must be listed with the words Black and White.
• The next line contains the studio and producer name.
• The synposis appears in a one point solid black bordered box, indented one em from both sides of the page. The box has one half em space at the top and bottom, and one half em padding.
• Each paragraph in the synopsis has a first line text indent of 0.75 em.

The synopsis is followed by production credits

• List the writer, director, photography, and music credits with the appropriate word (i.e. Writer: Joe Schmoe). If a credit has the attribute special="yes", the name appears in italic, but NOT the legend. (e.g., Writer: Special Guy)
• Note: not all movies have a credit for music!

Production credits are followed by the cast.

• The words The Cast are in 14 point type, underlined, with a one em space at the top.
• The cast is in a table that has two columns; each column is two inches wide. If, and only if, there is a <role> for the actor, then you fill the first cell with dots by adding a <fo:leader leader-pattern="dots"/>. In order to fill the cell, the enclosing <fo:block> must set text-align-last="justify" as one of its attributes. Don’t ask.

The cast is followed by reviews, if any.

• The heading Reviews appears in 14 point type with a one-em space before it.
• Each review-and-reviewer set has one half em space after it.
• The reviewer should be text-aligned at the right side.
• If the <reviewer> element has type="periodical", then its content should appear in italics.

Notes & Hint

If you wish to use the extra information in the <actor> element to do something special with lead actors or actors who deserve special mention, you may do so, but you do not have to.

The trickiest part comes when you are handling a <review> element and have to output the corresponding <reviewer>. This is because review/reviewer pairs are all in a line; they aren’t “fenced in” by a parent element the way that name/role pairs are enclosed in an <actor> element.

If you are in a template that matches a <review> element, and you want to get the corresponding <reviewer>, use this expression: select="following-sibling::*[position()=1]". The following-sibling::* selects all nodes on the following-sibling axis. The [position()=1] predicate will narrow that down to the first of those siblings, which is the <reviewer> element that you want.

Your final PDF file should look like this.