Maciej Hanski wrote: > I am fully aware of the major obstacles: the current file format being a > moving target, the new file format obviously far away from being stable, > without any visible progress: http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=111 > On the other hand, there would not be much need for XSL transformations > to the new file format until the 1.4 branch gets stable, and we are > probably talking of two years or so, judging by the roadmap and the > current progress. In the meantime, and probably some time after that, > 1.3.3.* branch will be _the_ Scribus version meant for production, and > there seems to exist real demand among Scribus users for such imports > right now. > So, it would make some sense to me, if an ambitious programmer started > to do some preliminary work on such XSL stylesheets. >
I would agree with Maciej here -- there is value now of beginning a "proof of concept" project, perhaps limited (for example) to text and image frames, that would show an initial approach which could then be critiqued and tested by many users. Greg
