RE: FO

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Subject: RE: FO
From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 15:56:49 -0700

At 09:30 2-08-2000 +1200, Matthew Bentley wrote:

>1. XSL-FO is still a working draft. They specifically tell you that they
>will not be constrained by implementations when making changes. It is
>also this changing specification that drives the development of FOP so,
>as soon as it's possible after a new draft is out, they update FOP to
>comply with the new draft... and that will not change until XSL-FO
>becomes a standard.

And...? XSLT is also still a working draft (Or a recommendation - I forget
the difference).

? The difference is exactly what the first poster was talking about. XSLT 1.0 is a W3C Recommendation. XSLT 1.0 is not going to change (modulo errata). XSLT 1.1 or XSLT 2.0 may be added, but XSLT 1.0 is not going to change. Its status section says, "It is a stable document and may be used as reference material or cited as a normative reference from other documents."

XSL proper is a Working Draft, which means that it is explicitly subject to change. Its status section says, "It is a draft document and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time."

Yet I would consider XSLT to have an amount of stability (Within reason).
This doesn't answer my question.
Secondly, FOP is only compatible with the old working draft, far as I know.

That's true. The instability of XSL is the problem here; FOP implementation began, and then XSL changed (or rather, continued to change). FOP is trying to keep up, but XSL will almost certainly change again before it reaches stable Recommendation status. Implementation in XSLT can be done in a production environment. XSL implementation should not be considered anything other than experimental until at least Candidate Recommendation status.

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Re: FO Nikolai Grigoriev - Tue, 1 Aug 2000 11:33:37 +0200 <Possible follow-ups> Matthew Bentley - Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:30:42 +1200 Sebastian Rahtz - Tue, 1 Aug 2000 23:43:23 +0100 (BST) Christopher R. Maden - Tue, 01 Aug 2000 15:56:49 -0700 <= Matthew Bentley - Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:23:14 +1200 Kay Michael - Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:18:40 +0100

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