(dsssl) identity transforms in Jade

[Karl Critz <kcritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am looking for a way to style my XML documents into RTF.
I am using XSL as my transform language. There is no RTF XSL-FO backend 
that I know of, so I was thinking that I  could produce a .fo file from my 
XSLT engine, send that file to OpenJade, then use an identity 
transform.  Messy, but theoretically effective.

  file.xml -> [xslt] -> file.fo -> [jade] -> file.rtf
                 ^                    ^
              style.xsl             identity.dsl


I did some digging on the DSSSList and discovered some discussion of 
identity transforms.  Everyone seemed to agree that it would be nice to 
have one, but one was never written.

The only alternative I can see is maintaining separate stylesheets and 
sending my XML file straight to Jade with style.dsl.  I would strongly 
prefer not to maintain stylesheets in dsssl and xsl.

* Does my approach seem reasonable?
* Have I missed any alternatives?
* Is there such an identity transform out there?
* If not, how difficult would it be to write one?

thanks

-karl


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