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That message is undated, though the copyright goes back to 2001 and perhaps
was only updated to reference 4.0. Consider that the company where you
found the post has not made any announcements regarding products supporting
XSL-FO.
Consider that any company not in a particular space may want to prejudice opinions to support a decision not to be in that space. Consider that XSL-FO is the web standard for paginating documents and the comment you read about overlap with CSS/HTML is for a little-used "media-usage=" feature of XSL-FO (so little that I am unaware of *any* implementations of it!) that can allow it to be used without pagination. By far the prevalent use of XSL-FO (to my knowledge 100%) is for the elaborate pagination of information, not at all well addressed by HTML and CSS. Consider http://www.xmlsoftware.com/xslfo.html for a growing list of XSL-FO supported tools being used world-wide in the production of professional-quality paginated outputs. The message you cite must be dated before October 2001 because that was the time that XSL-FO 1.0 did become a "standard fully accepted by the W3C" ... that is when it became a Recommendation and it is maturing through the start of the XSL-FO 1.1 project. The message clearly was not expecting it or is trying to mislead the reader into believing that it has not been finalized when it has, indeed, been finalized. This is *not* vapourware and my XSL-FO students are using it on a day-by-day basis: mass mailings, utility bills, reports, database dumps, etc. XSL-FO is for real ... many people are embracing it ... it isn't going to go away regardless of what large companies may have said three years ago. XSL-FO's future is very bright! I hope this helps. .......................... Ken At 2004-02-27 07:56 -0300, Célio Cidral Junior wrote: Below is an excerpt of an explanation for XSLT, took out from http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/htm/xslt_starter_54dw.asp:
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