Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Think how easy it will all be when you switch to XSL FO, and have the
> choice of 5 or 6 different rendering engines, and even more possible
> output formats. When I see that FOP now has a PCL renderer, and I see
> how easy it is to import HTML into Word, its hard to see what
> DSSSL/Jade buys you (apart from processing SGML, of course)
>
> Sebastian
>
I agree: but I switched to Apache FOP some months ago, just to discover that from
version 0.15 to version 0.16 the changes were of such magnitude that
my XSL should be rebuilt. I would appreciate if somebody can describe
the (REAL) actual state of FOP.
Also: I can't use the Docbook DTD but at the cost of building a whole XSLT from scratch.
My docs are not Docbxml compatibles.
Also: After trying to learn Scheme, I must switch to XSLT. Ok, I wouldn't have a
big problem but, after all, I found the tools very unstable.
You mention 5 or 6 tools: I would appreciate a link to some site about them. For
the time being, I only know about FOP.
All this said, I reckon things and changing fast and I can't keep with it, but
I pray for some stable tool wich allows documentation generation and management.
I would pay for such tool if I can thorougly test it.
Regards,
Juan R. Migoya
TEAM S.L.
ZAMUDIO (VIZCAYA)
SPAIN
