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> There are other implementations of XSL (renderx, xep, > passivetex, ...) So your current stylesheet generating FO > should work with any of those. > > also there are many ways of getting from XML without using > XSL (or XSLT for that matter) xmltex, dsssl, 3b2, arbortext, ... <commercial> I work for Arbortext so I want to clarify our support. Our products incorporate a public domain XSL transformation engine with some specialized interface code so the transformation engine is working off of our internal memory model. We also have an XSL FO formatting engine which is not public domain, it works off of much of the same code base as our older FOSI based formatting engine. We still have some bugs and some limitations in our support but we are working hard to resolve the issues we know about. So David was correct when he listed us in his paragraph about ways that involve not using XSL, but we should also have appeared in his paragraph about other implementations of XSL. For printing and PDF, we support both the XSL standard and the older FOSI standard. One nice aspect of our integration against our internal data model is we allow users to use XSL stylesheets not only with XSL documents, but also with XSL entities, SGML documents, and SGML entities. If a stylesheet is intended to be used with entities, the stylesheet author has to consider the possibility of multiple top level tags. An XML document cannot have multiple top level tags but an entity has different rules. If a stylesheet is intended to be used with SGML, the user needs to realize the SGML marked sections are resolved before the stylesheet sees the data and SGML character references that don't have valid Unicode values will be passed to the stylesheet as the character entity reference in text form. So while there are some edge conditions to consider, we also support both XSL and XSL(T) for our customer base who are using SGML for historical or legal reasons. </commercial> John Dreystadt Director of Product Management Arbortext XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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