Re: XSL FO

At 11:12 PM 7/11/00 -0400, Tony Graham wrote:
>
>Taking XSLFO off the XSL-List and away from the T'ers seems like a
>very poor way to advance the cause.  If people don't see that things
>are happening with XSLFO, they will just assume that no progress has
>been made.  A lively discussion of XSLFO on the XSL-List will show
>that XSLFO is alive and well, but if you take XSLFO off the XSL-List,
>you'll have trouble bringing it back to the attention of the list.
>
>Furthermore, there is little evidence yet that XSLFO can support a
>second mailing list of its own.  If you add together the user
>questions on this list, the XSLFO posts on the XSL-List, and the
>occasional XSLFO post on XML-Dev, you still wouldn't have a very
>active list.

>From one perspective XSLFO already does support a second mailing list: the 
fop-dev list at XML Apache.

That being said, I support your view that XSLFO ought to be discussed here. 
fop-dev already entertains a class of posts that have to do with usage, and 
these are more appropriate (I think) for this forum.

I've been personally remiss in not making use of _this_ list, and have 
rectified that. I think that we (the FOP project) can also use this list as 
a mechanism for reporting on the current state of the art, as can other 
implementers.

>Maybe XSLFO posts on the XSL-List can standardise on a prefix such as
>"[FO]" so they are easier to locate among the XSLT posts.  People can
>also provide feedback on what they think the XSL-List web page,
>etc. should say about XSLFO.  Feedback will be read, and will be acted
>upon as appropriate.

Makes sense. I think the concern has been expressed that FO-related posts 
will get swallowed up, but OTOH, who knows until you try. :-)

>I also think that people on this list such as Sebastian and Dave
>Pawson, to name just two, have been useful enough on the XSL-List that
>most people would indulge them talking about XSLFO even if the people
>don't use XSLFO themselves.
>
>I'm not trying to keep XSLFO on the XSL-List for the sake of the
>XSL-List, but because I think that it's counterproductive to take it
>off the XSL-List.
>
We (FOP types) can start publicizing the XSL List. I guess we can explore 
how you guys can publicize us.

Regards, Arved Sandstrom

Senior Developer
e-plicity.com (www.e-plicity.com)
Halifax, Nova Scotia
"B2B Wireless in Canada's Ocean Playground"


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