Re: Q: XML+XSL transforms to a print-ready format

[Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Tchistopolskii writes:
 > If you have good lists - you have 95% of the functionality 
 > usualy requested from tables. 

that just doesn't conform with my observations, I am afraid. how do
you render the traditional matrix-like

   a  b  c  d
   1  2  3  4
   5  6  7  8

as list? (where the numbers have decimal points, and need lining up)

do other people agree that table rendering is not needed for a 
daily working system?

 > Once again. The current shape of RenderX rendering engine 
 > is sufficient  to  start  using it in the production environment.

I wish you would show me, then, how to do a simple dictionary layout,
where the running head is
 foo ... bar
where "foo" is the first headword on the page, and "bar" is the last. 
yes, I know this is very obscure for many people, its what I call a
production environment. Yes, this is probably an XSL FO question, not
a RenderX question.

 > tag somebody else will come and say that because rendering 
 > engine does not  supports 'nice' page numbering in the situation 
 > when the page has a landscape orientation - it is imcomplete?

yup. until you can do what typical day-to-day formatters do in the
real world, its incomplete. hopefully, in due course, you'll go
*beyond* what current generation formatters do.

 > Actualy, I see nothing wrong  here. I was working in some 
 > different companies in different countries and most of 
 > them were using this or very similiar model.

the "trust me, i am your friend" model, beloved of IBM in the old days?

....
 > 
 > And I'm answering that our HTML may be 'incorrect',  because 
 > it does not realy matter.

No. it does not matter, per se, that your HTML is invalid.
It does not matter, per se, if the toilets are dirty when you go for
an interview in a new place of work. Its just a simple test one can
apply. 

 > What particular problem do you have with our  HTML pages ?
none. I was just being picky, so I threw it at validator.w3.org

sebastian


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