RE: [xsl] XSL Newbie: How2 write transforms for variable XML

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:16 AM 1/28/2005, it was written:
>    allows rendering a input xml document to be rendered in
>     multiple output media like print, browser, eBook etc.,
>
> My apologies here. What I meant by eBook was formatting an XML document
> into an eBook suitable for rendering on a palmtop or a eBookReader. Again,
> this may not exist as of now but should be possible using XSL-FO.

If your eBook uses the Open eBook format, which is XML-based (it's HTMLish 
with provisions for uniform metadata and so forth), it might be 
considerably easier to go straight into it via XSLT than to use XSL-FO for 
this.

An XSL-FO browser could make a nice platform for reading e-text, but that's 
not where the eBook specifications seem to have gone --

http://www.openebook.org/oebps/oebps1.2/download/oeb12-xhtml.htm

(Of course that document is dated 2002: I don't know what's been happening 
more recently in this area or where vendors are going.)

Regards,
Wendell


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