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RE: Support for XSL-FO
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 23:58:23 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Support for XSL-FO
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
The XSL-FO spec, and implementations of it, have indeed come a long way
in the two years since XSLT Programmers Reference 1st edition was
published.
Michael Kay
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com] On Behalf Of
> Jesse Heines
> Sent: 20 June 2002 03:26
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: [xsl] Support for XSL-FO
>
>
> In some ways this is a question specifically for Michael Kay,
> but I am posting it here rather than sending it directly to
> Michael because I think others may be interested in his
> response, and I think others may have a different answer that
> I would also like to hear.
>
> 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.
>
> Is this statement still true? I found one implementation at
> RenderX.com 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Thank you,
> Jesse Heines
> University of Massachusetts Lowell
>
>
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