RE: XML to RTF with XSL?

> > It probably wouldn't be too hard (If I could remember any dsssl) to
> > write a dsssl stylesheet for XSL FO in which case Jade could 
> > read in an
> > XSL FO file and spit out rtf, mif, tex or whatever.
> > 
> > There was talk at one time of making the jade back ends directly
> > available to an XSL rather than DSSSL front end but I don't know
> > if anything came of that, and writing a DSSSL sheet to read 
> XSL FO is
> > no doubt easier than modifying the sources of Jade:-)
> > 
> 
> Good idea! My DSSSL knowledge must be very rusty (it was never very
> extensive to start with) and I haven't dived into XSL-FO yet 
> either, but I
> wouldn't mind practising these skills. I think I'll try to 
> cook something up
> and then maybe others in the field could jump in and 
> finish/improve it. 

I looked into this, but don't see how it can be done. If I have a formatting
object like this: 

<fo:block font-size="11pt" "font-family="sans-serif">a paragraph</fo:block>

I would want to make a rule in my DSSSL stylesheet like: 

(element fo:block (make paragraph font-size="11pt"
font-family="sans-serif"))

[sorry for any errors]

I want to *pull* the font-size and font-family information from the
attributes on fo:block, but I can't do that in DSSSL, or can I? 

If I need to re-enter all the formatting information instead of being able
to pull them from my formatting objects document, then I'd be better of just
doing an XML-to-RTF with a DSSSL stylesheet only, instead of using xsl:fo in
between. Right? 

Linda


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