Subject: Re: [xsl] RE: XSL-FO and Z-index From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:21:49 -0400 |
Jesper:
I am only very sensitive because for many years, many (in my opinion anti xml/xsl) companies beat down XSL FO solutions in print situations because of the very thing you brought up. They claimed "non-perfomance" of XSL FO print engines when in fact their products performed the same as XSL FO solutions if one would implement them in the same way as they did their proprietary solutions. Their solutions would pre-image table borders and spit them out to the page, just as I have suggested. Many XSL FO folks just did not consider the consequences of their recommendations in the overall scheme of things. I would not fault Ken for anything and as Ken can (hopefully) attest to, he and I are very good friends and have shared plenty of dinners and wonderful conversations together. He gave you a solution to the issue presented, one solution that works and if you are only rendering a few pages here and there, works perfectly.
I just want to be sure that issues presented and solved in this mailing list take into account *all* the factors of requirements from customers. Not just "how" can this be done but also "why are we doing it" a particular way. I would hope that everyone would benefit from such conversation. You need to consider all of these factors and do what is right for yourself and/or your customers.
I presented you real facts. Imaging a table as cells in one document, occasionally, is nothing. Great, do it that way.
But if you are doing it in 100,000 documents in a short period of time, you better change your methods now. You are screwed otherwise because any formatting engine drawing that many lines and any printer instructed to draw that many lines, well, the outcome is obvious.
Actual in practice implementations of XSL FO can teach folks a lot about what to do and not what to do. All folks need to do is ask.
Kevin Brown RenderX
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