Re: (dsssl) Mutiple replies. Long message

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

(threaded replies would have been easlier to manage, Javier)

At 2003-04-07 19:25 +0200, you wrote:
> >From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: Re: (dsssl) Heresy
> >
> >I must confess that I have migrated all of my DSSSL work to XSLT and XSL-FO
>
> >and do no further work with DSSSL.
>
> But you, Ken, you are a slave of the market.

Sad, but true.

> You are forced to offer teaching in the areas they ask
> for. If they ask for XML, you must teach them XML.

Yes.

> By the way, could you Ken explain what you say about DSSSL loosing ground
> when new XSL versions appear?

I am anticipating more complex page models, powerful formatting objects and 
flexible properties to be available to support multiple flows, 
synchronizing constructs in the block progression direction, similar 
constructs to indirect sosofos, etc.  With such facilities available in the 
XSL-FO semantics, one should be able to produce just about everything DSSSL 
can produce today with the complex page model.

................ Ken


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