Subject: Re: XSL FO competition From: Chris Lilley <chris@xxxxxx> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 22:22:34 +0100 |
Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > > Chris Lilley writes: > > Entries should come complete with source code and be freely usable by > > others. Entries should take an XSL FO tree (either read in as an xml > > document or, if wished, by implementing the XSL transformation part and > this would be covered by an "FO to LaTeX" converter, and an > appropriate LaTeX style sheet? > > what is the target? screen? print? `anything in a Web browser'? ie a > PDF file? a browser plugin? That would work for a static, print media, yes. I expect that to be the foirst one to see light of day since Web printing is so badly served at present. > > reading in the source XML document and the XSL stylesheet). Entries > > should output a rendered view of the document, in accordance with the > > intent of the XSL stylesheet. With demonstrably better rendering than > > CSS2 can produce, the object being to demonstrate that XSL is more > > powerful *as a style sheet language*. For example, implementing mixed > > vertical and horizontal writing systems. > three problems. > > a) the XSL formatting objects are, so far, too weak You would notice that the competition starts with the release of the *next* draft for that reason > to support any > interesting formatting which would challenge CSS. unless you can > promise the next draft will contain eg math and tables, I cry "foul". I won't say ahead of release what will be in the release, obviously. But the *last* release had some stuff that is not in CSS2, such as, as I said, mixed horizontal and vertical writing directions. It even allowed the specification of boustrophedon as a writing ystem, if you want to represent ancient greek etc. > b) "demonstrably better rendering than CSS2". to do this, one needs > a test document, surely, which exercises interesting formatting > features. I was leaving that up to the creativity of the participants. > c) one may be constrained by limitations of the XSL FO's in their > draft incarnation. suppose there *are* table FOs, but it turns out > they can express no more than HTML tables - then one cannot > demonstrate, surely, what the XSL formatter could theoretically do? No-one is forcing you to take part, let alone ahead of the next WD release. > i am inclined to say that if no-one meets your challenge in a year, > then the XSL committee might as well turn the lights out and leave :-} Which was my point in saying that "if there are no entries within a year, no one wins (literally)". Sorry if the irony escaped you. -- Chris XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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