User`s guide

8 Create Custom Stylesheets
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Stylesheets
In this section...
“Built-In Versus Custom Stylesheets” on page 8-2
“Customize Stylesheets Using Data Items” on page 8-3
Built-In Versus Custom Stylesheets
Stylesheets specify formatting and display settings for reports. The report-generation
process uses stylesheets to convert reports from DocBook XML format to a format that
you specify. If you want to generate the given report in a different format than initially
specified, you can convert the XML document using a different or modified stylesheet.
The following table lists report output formats and their default stylesheets.
Report Format Default Stylesheet
HTML Uses stylesheets for either single- or multiple-page documents
PDF Formatting Object (FO) stylesheet
RTF, Word Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL)
stylesheet
The following table shows a list of properties for the built-in stylesheets.
Properties of Stylesheets
Name Description
Description A description of the stylesheet.
Display name The stylesheet name that appears in the Options pane.
Transform type The process used to generate reports that use a specified stylesheet.
Supported types are:
• HTML
• FO (Formatting Object) for PDF reports
• DSSSL (Document Style Semantics and Specification Language) for
RTF and Word reports