Subject: Re: Table question/was Re: Whitespace questions From: Paul Tchistopolskii <paul@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:57:40 -0700 |
From: Rebecca Lundberg <rlundberg@xxxxxxxx> > I am using xalan 1.1.6, xerces 1.1.3 and apache's fop_14 (from > www.apache.org/fop) ... > Is Clark's stuff any better than what I'm using right now? James Clark's XT ( which implements XSLT, not XSL FO ) is fast, clean and almost bug-free. SAXON is also fast and clean, can not comment on robustness of SAXON yet, but it looks OK. There could be some minor things like SAXON being sensitive to some exotics VM's / configurations. - never encountered that myself, but it seems some people saw that. XT works everywhere, but is not 100% complete. SAXON is 101% complete. ;-) Unfortunatelty, the implementations of XSLT ( those are probably 'better' than xalan ) will not help you with XSL FO part of XSL ( To me it looks like the problems you are writing here are mostly the problems of XSL FO implementation you are using ). I have not checked situation with XSL FO implemenations for a while, but if there was no serious movements ( and I think nothing serious has happened ) renderx.com XSL FO engine should be months ( if not years ) ahead any other XSL FO engine you will find. Also I know for sure that Sebastian's TeX-based solutions and I think probably Unicorn-FO's should have some other benefits, comparing them to renderx engine, but I think those benefits are from the side other than 100% conformant XSL FO's. I'm glad I now can say this thing loudly in public place, because for a very long time I have nothing in common neither with renderx company nor with the XSL FO engine provided by renderx.com. Rgsd.Paul. PS. Ah - I forgot. I also think you are better not to assume FOP to be a robust implementation. I mean that silent failures ( or razing the exceptions ) was typical behavior of the old FOP codebase. ( In case 'old codebase' of FOP has changed significantly in last months, please disregard this comment. Last time when I've tried FOP was more than 6 months ago ). I also don't know the situation with the latest codebase of renderx engine. Long time ago correct user-friendly diagnostics was given a high priority. PPS. If by "Clark's stuff" you mean DSSSL: http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/#faq "DSSSL has capabilities that XSL does not, and continues in use in the print publishing industry." This is written on W3C website - this should be true ;-) XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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