Re: [xsl] alternative to FO?

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@xxxxxxxx>]

Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

> Awhile back Hans started writing an FO processor for his ConTeXt macro
> system.  As near as I can tell, he got frustrated with FO, and ended up
> with this instead (or perhaps in addition).  Thoughts?

Hans's markup seems simpler than FO but it also covers only small subset
of FO capabilities. If you will extend his language to support as many
features as FO you will probably get also something very complex and
quite similar to FO.

It might be option for some users who don't want care about FO or TeX
and have not very demanding rendering requirements. But these people can
use some visual FO design tool to create XSLT transformation that will
turn XML source into FO file. And for simple documents you can use such
tool without any knowledge of XML, XSLT and XSL-FO.

But anyway it is good to have more possibilities to get print output
from XML. And ConTeXt is a very attractive tool based on TeX engine.

				Jirka

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