RE: [xsl] Support for XSL-FO

["Matthew L. Avizinis" <mla@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tke a look at FOP in xml.apache.org.  While it does have it's drawbacks,
it's free and relatively stable.  I am using it here at my company for
commercial purposes because it is at least that stable and supports a
sufficient part of the latest recommendation to make it worth using.
The developer and user groups for FOP are also quite active, with the user
group becoming more so by the month.
imho,
   Matthew L. Avizinis <mailto:mla@xxxxxxxxx>
Gleim Publications, Inc.
   4201 NW 95th Blvd.
 Gainesville, FL 32606
(352)-375-0772 ext. 101
      www.gleim.com <http://www.gleim.com>

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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jesse Heines
> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 10:26 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Support for XSL-FO
>
>
> In some ways this is a question specifically for Michael Kay, but I am
> posting it here rather than sending it directly to Michael because I
> think others may be interested in his response, and I think others may
> have a different answer that I would also like to hear.
>
> On page 22 of the first edition of Michael's XSLT Programmer's
> Reference, he states: "... The [XSL-FO] standard is not yet stable, and
> the only products that implement it are at a very early stage of
> development."  With a copyright date of 2000, I assume that this
> statement was written in late 1999 or early 2000.
>
> Is this statement still true?  I found one implementation at RenderX.com
> with a freely downloadable evaluation version (and quite pricey
> commercial version at $5,000), but so far I have not found others at the
> same level.
>
> Thus I would appreciate hearing people's opinions on the truth of
> Michael's above statement today and comments on other implementations.
> I'm particularly interested in free implementations because I'm a
> college professor and want to develop some demonstrations and hopefully
> even an exercise for my classes.
>
> Thank you,
> Jesse Heines
> University of Massachusetts Lowell
>
>
>
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