Re: XSL FO competition

At 98/12/15 21:37 +0100, Chris Lilley wrote:
>I am interested in seeing an XSL formatter.
>
>Given an XSL formatting specification (ie an XML document to which an
>XSL stylesheet has been applied, to generate FOs (not HTML) and the
>result externalised as another XML document instance), a program which
>produces a rendered view of the document. 

Last September 30 at the SGML/XML conference in Tokyo, my (as yet
unreleased) shareware X2D stylesheet was announced.

This is a DSSSL stylesheet for any DSSSL engine that will render an XSL FO
tree as created out of XT.  Given the warnings in the first WD about flow
objects, I suspended development after getting started until the next
release of the WD (I'm not privy to the XSL WG work) and next release of
XT, so I hadn't yet made an announcement to the XSL group.  I implemented
X2D with some simple XSL semantics to prove to myself it could be done.

There's a link on my shareware resources page for being notified of
information about the software.

Would a componentized solution be acceptable for your competition?  The
components being a DSSSL stylesheet and DSSSL engine.

I talked with others at the Chicago conference, and I haven't heard of
other efforts started yet ... perhaps your challenge will spark other
approaches.

.............. Ken


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