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RE: Future of XSL-FO at W3C??

• To: "'Ian Tindale'" <iandeli@c...>
• Subject: RE: Future of XSL-FO at W3C??
• From: "bryan" <bry@i...>
• Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:31:05 +0200
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• In-reply-to: <200210181527.16155.iandeli@c...>

Ian wrote:

>I wonder how easy it would be to write an XSLT transformation that eats
the 
>above and sorts out FO properties in the right places? After all, the
input 
>to XSLT doesn't have to be 'proper' XML, doesn't it? (or even XML at
all, 
>come to that). Thus you could write a CSS stylesheet and use it as a 
>pre-phase for the true XSLT transform, to generate a simple immediate
>library 
>of properties as entity replacements. Maybe?


That would be pretty difficult seeing as how the above is just a bunch
of text inside a node and XSLT does not handle text very well. However
it is not difficult to write a css in xml format which is what I use in
the solutions I build for XSL-FO.

It is unfortunately something of an ugly but necessary hack, hence my
desire to see it replaced by actual css support.

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