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> Gregg writes: >I wasn't there, but my understanding is that DSSSL was an attempt to improve >upon FOSI. Paul Grosso would have the facts. I was told that FOSI was a stopgap in recognition that DSSSL would be a long and very hard design task, so FOSI ("Formatting Output Specification Instance" as I recall) was to be the citable workable thing until the real thing was done. As with other stopgaps, it outlived its projected usefulness. Remember, when HTML emerged, a LOT of efforts went to the back burner. Companies started running out of heavily funded tasks that weren't web-centric. XML wasn't just "get SGML on the Web" but also "let's get marketshare before the funding goes away". :-) Once this was done, it became appropriate to re-open advanced work. That can't be done without competing with other newer efforts (FOs are older than CSS), nor can it be done without looking at the changes and or advances of the new environments and systems (eg, the WWW). At that point, it is time to look at the goals and adjust. >> (As for no quality typesetting being done with DSSSL (or near >> dialects), >> I am sure that Uniscope in Tokyo had good material to disprove that. I >> have seen it.) >What's their market share? ;) QED. > E.g. footnotes can be anywhere in > the source, but they have to end up in the right place after composition. I > don't think you can do that reliably without composing and recomposing the > whole thing. Which comes around to a point: the end use may determine the process and the process will have requirements that dictate the order (binding of addresses, composing change bars, etc), so in the specification of the goals (back to Amy), if these are not sensitive to the final product and perhaps the process order, it is possible for the project to go off the rails quickly. In light of that, take a look at what CSS sets out to achieve, its systemic requirements, then ask if it is a good solution. It is. Now go back to XSLFOs and ask what they are intended to achieve. len *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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