XSL FO competition

Subject: XSL FO competition
From: Chris Lilley <chris@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 21:37:31 +0100
I am interested in seeing an XSL formatter.

Given an XSL formatting specification (ie an XML document to which an
XSL stylesheet has been applied, to generate FOs (not HTML) and the
result externalised as another XML document instance), a program which
produces a rendered view of the document. 

So, to make this a bit more interesting - lets have a competition. 

On release of the next XSL working draft, the competition starts.
Entries  should come complete with source code and be freely usable by
others. Entries should take an XSL FO tree (either read in as an xml
document or, if wished, by implementing the XSL transformation part and
reading in the source XML document and the XSL stylesheet). Entries
should output a rendered view of the document, in accordance with the
intent of the XSL stylesheet. With demonstrably better rendering than
CSS2 can produce, the object being to demonstrate that XSL is more
powerful *as a style sheet language*. For example, implementing mixed
vertical and horizontal writing systems.

First past the post wins; if there are no entries that meet the criteria
one year after the start of the competition, no-one wins (literally).

Prize is a copy of Cliff, Stafford "The Best in Cutting Edge
Typography". Hardback, 224 pages, profusely illustrated in color. One
previous owner (me). As new.

--
Chris Lilley
Chair, W3C CSS working group
Chair, W3C SVG working group
contributor, W3C common formatting model
contributor, W3C  XSL working group


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