Subject: [xsl] ANN: XML 2002 Paper Posted: Production Quality XSL-FO From: "W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:03:23 -0600 |
This paper reflects the state of the world as of late October 2002. Since I wrote it, the following FO implementations have been released or announced:
- Adobe Document Server. Includes an FO-to-PDF component based on top of Framemaker. Doesn't implement as many features as XEP or XSL Formatter, but lets you use Frame-specific functionality from the FO, such as Frame templates. Provides some extensions, including a revision bar mechanism.
- SUN's xmlroff open-source FO implementation. Written in C. Provides internationalization features, including support for right-to-left writing modes. Feature support is "almost basic conformance". Should be released Real Soon Now (just waiting for final approvals).
- 3B2's to-be-named "free or almost-free" FO implementation, built on top of the 3B2 formatting engine.
- Antenna House announced Unix and Linux support in 1Q2003 (they are doing final release testing now).
- IBM's XFC FO implementation was released as part of a larger AFP product. IBM assures me that it is under active development.
It was standing room only by the time I was done presenting my talk, which is pretty good considering I was up against Norm Walsh. From the questions I got asked, it was clear that a lot of enterprises are starting to investigate the use of XSL-FO to do sophisticated page composition.
Eliot -- W. Eliot Kimber, eliot@xxxxxxxxxx Consultant, ISOGEN International
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