Created attachment 25367 [details]
FOP ant task patch for intermediate format file allowed as input files

The current FOP ant task only allows xsl:fo input files to transfer into different output formats. This patch updates the current FOP ant task and provides the intermediate format file processing with the FOP ant task.

I have made the following changes in order to achieve this:

1. Introduced 'iffile' attribute to accept the intermediate format file as input in FOP ant task.

2. Introduced 'inputformat' attribute (optional, defaults to 'fo') to accept the below formats
       
              --> fo (xsl:fo input file)
              --> if (intermediate format file)
              --> at (area tree input file)
              --> xml

3. Renamed the current 'format' attribute to 'outputformat'

4. Updated the corresponding documenation 'content/xdocs/anttasks.xml' for the examples and usage.

Usage:

<target name="generate-ps-from-intermediate-format" description="Generates PostScript file using an intermediate format file">
   <fop outputformat="application/postscript"
        iffile="c:\working\ifDirectory\ifDocument.if"
        outfile="c:\working\psDirectory\psDocument.ps" />
</target>

<target name="generate-multiple-ps-from-intermediate-format" description="Generates multiple PostScript files using an intermediate format files">
   <fop outputformat="application/postscript"
        inputformat="if"
        outdir="${build.dir}" messagelevel="debug">
        <fileset dir="${test.dir}">
           <include name="*.if.xml"/>
        </fileset>
   </fop>
</target>

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