Re: Support for XSL-FO

Hello Jesse,

yes you are correct that in general, having any discussion is good to have
on the list, but I would suggest always posing the question generically ,
esp for archive's sake. Mr. Kay does have his own personal email address.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Heines" <heines@xxxxxxxxxx>

> On page 22 of the first edition of Michael's XSLT Programmer's
> Reference, he states: "... The [XSL-FO] standard is not yet stable, and
> the only products that implement it are at a very early stage of
> development."  With a copyright date of 2000, I assume that this
> statement was written in late 1999 or early 2000.

this is eons ago

> Is this statement still true?  I found one implementation at RenderX.com

no the statement is not true, XSL-FO is now a W3 recc, which puts it on
terms of other well known stable 'pillar' technologies for the web.

> with a freely downloadable evaluation version (and quite pricey
> commercial version at $5,000), but so far I have not found others at the
> same level.

this is serious software, so it costs money.

 For the rest of us there are many other implementations, Apache's being the
most desired and released under their typical license xml.apache.org/fop.

> Thus I would appreciate hearing people's opinions on the truth of
> Michael's above statement today and comments on other implementations.
> I'm particularly interested in free implementations because I'm a
> college professor and want to develop some demonstrations and hopefully
> even an exercise for my classes.

Have you contacted the nice people at RenderX ? they may do Academic
pricing, not sure.

cheers, James Fuller

>
> Thank you,
> Jesse Heines
> University of Massachusetts Lowell
>
>
>
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