Re: RTF Processor

Paul Prescod writes:

 > RTF functionality from XSL would indeed be useful. XSL is designed
 > to be a conceptual subset of DSSSL. Thus if you are looking to
 > extend it to handle more print-oriented flow objects, I think it is
 > most appropriate that you use the DSSSL flow objects which are the
 > product of years of thought and experience and seem very complete
 > and well considered to me.

The biggest problem with the DSSSL flow object classes is that there
is no middle ground between the trivial simple-page-sequence and the
extremely complex page-sequence/page-model and
column-set-sequence/column-set-model.


All the best,


David

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