a beginner question on XSLT

Question

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

Answer 1

If you want to convert data to PDF, you may use XSL:FO/FOP. You need a FOP template which is an xsl file and that can be converted to PDF. This xsl file can reference to XML, external objects like image files or you can use freemarker/velocity to put data into the XSL template.

You can find more info: http://www.treebuilder.de/svg/extentSVG/artikel/tut.html

If you use FOP tags, you can reference to the SVG file like:

I think it is possible to add the svg file to saxon as a parameter