Subject: Re: (dsssl) [help wanted] OpenJade From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 09:32:38 +0000 |
Adam Di Carlo writes: > So -- C++ and DSSSL hackers and documenters! Let them say XSL is the > future -- maybe they are right and maybe not. Who knows. Who cares? > We have single sourced documentation with XML and SGML today, with > high-quality printing, and a stable spec, *today*! Can the XSL-FO > toolchain say that? I don't think so. *If* you regard the jadetex component as part of the "DSSSL Solution", then I would make a comment or two a) jadetex is NOT doing a perfect job. it really needs someone to lift it from its present hibernation (twitching occasionally in its sleep), and fix up all the problems. b) if I make an XSL FO file, I can run it through 2 free and 2 commercial processors today on this computer (FOP, PassiveTeX, Antenna House, XEP); none of them perfect, but between them I'd claim they (easily) cover more than jadetex what I do not know (from lack of trying) is whether the PDF and MIF backends to Jade do as good a job. To my mind, the OpenJade project should really be pushing the direct PDF backend. > programming symantics with their schema systems, and that seems to be > breaking apart (TREX, Relax, XML Schema). Is it just me or is it all > trying to recapture (badly) computer science features that lisp (and > others) had 50 years ago?] of course it is. thats life... was it ever fair? sebastian DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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