XSL-FO in the browser (Was: Re: [xsl] use cases for d-o-e)

[Jeni Tennison <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wendell,

> We have yet to see anything like FO in the browser. Would be nice,
> wouldn't it? But we're all so used to HTML's display semantics that
> we don't even notice anymore the way HTML lays us out on Procrustes'
> bed. (Admittedly CSS is a big help these days.)

We've yet to see anything like XSL-FO in HTML browsers, but there are
some XSL-FO viewers that you can use like browsers:

 - Antenna House Formatter (http://www.antennahouse.com/)
 - XSmiles (http://www.xsmiles.org/)

They can both get hold of XML source over the web, automatically
transform to XSL-FO and display the results. XSmiles also makes an
attempt to view HTML (though it doesn't manage CSS, unfortunately) and
is worth looking at for the SMIL and XForms implementations.

Cheers,

Jeni

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