Re: xsl:fo in web browsers

["James Tauber" <jtauber@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Vidar Gundersen <vidarg@xxxxxx>
> I have this idea: Any browser with XSL, CSS and HTML 4.0 support can
> in principle transform the FO document instance into HTML with inline
> CSS.

I know of at least one person who did some work on this a while ago during
the early work on XSL. There are numerous problems, not least of which is
that most browsers don't do CSS properly anyway! Another issue is that XSL
FOs are more powerful the CSS (and certainly the CSS in browsers).

Any why would you go XML->FO->HTML+CSS when you can go XML->HTML+CSS with
greater control anyway?

The other day, I did kind of the reverse, I wrote an XSL stylesheet that
formats XHTML documents into XSL FOs (or at least the ones FOP supports). It
will be available on the FOP page when 0.10.0 is released (next week with
considerable speed increases!)

James
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