Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Apache and SVG
At Seybold it was generally agreed that the Apache software to create PDF from XML needed much more work. This whole area was new to me. Can anyone explain a bit more about 'XSL-FO' . At the software parc drupa there was more in this area but i didn't have time to look at it. Any ideas?
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Ian Buttery has suggested this link as a source on XSL-FO
http://www.w3schools.com/xslfo/default.asp
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http://www.w3schools.com/xslfo/default.asp
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Dave Pawson wrote one of the first books on XSL-FO (O'Reilly). He has a "gentle introduction" on his website:
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect3/xsl-fo.html
Basically, in Noddy terms, you convert your XML to XSL-FO (an XML implementation) then use a freeware or commercial tool to interpret and to convert the XSL-FO to PDF. Generally, each tool interprets the W3C's XSL (or "XSL-FO") spec differently, and as a free open-source project, Apache's FOP processor is, as you say, somewhat behind the commercial tools, lacking the more sophisticated features required for commercial publishing, and lacking support (except for an active user group).
Last time I looked at the tools properly (October 2003), no tool had 100% compliance to the W3C's XSL spec, but Antenna House's XSLFormatter was ahead of the rest, with RenderX's XEP not too far behind.
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http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect3/xsl-fo.html
Basically, in Noddy terms, you convert your XML to XSL-FO (an XML implementation) then use a freeware or commercial tool to interpret and to convert the XSL-FO to PDF. Generally, each tool interprets the W3C's XSL (or "XSL-FO") spec differently, and as a free open-source project, Apache's FOP processor is, as you say, somewhat behind the commercial tools, lacking the more sophisticated features required for commercial publishing, and lacking support (except for an active user group).
Last time I looked at the tools properly (October 2003), no tool had 100% compliance to the W3C's XSL spec, but Antenna House's XSLFormatter was ahead of the rest, with RenderX's XEP not too far behind.
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