Re: OpenDocument as an output format

2006-06-05 Thread Simon Pepping
Gerhard and Clay, Thanks for your interesting info on Open Document Format (ODF or ODT?). Later this year I hope to be able to spend some more work on ODF. But I am afraid that ODF as an output format for FOP is not a priority for me. Regards, Simon On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 09:11:43AM -0700, Web

Re: OpenDocument as an output format

2006-06-04 Thread Web Maestro Clay
On Jun 4, 2006, at 2:05 AM, gerhard oettl wrote: On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:17:26PM -0300, Stefan Ziel wrote: hi folks, creating an Output Handler for OASIS OpenDocument, as mentioned in the "wish list" don?t seem to make much sense, as XSL:FO can easily be converted to OpenDocument using a

Re: OpenDocument as an output format

2006-06-04 Thread gerhard oettl
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:17:26PM -0300, Stefan Ziel wrote: >hi folks, > >creating an Output Handler for OASIS OpenDocument, as mentioned in the >"wish list" don?t seem to make much sense, as XSL:FO can easily be >converted to OpenDocument using a XSLT style sheet. without doing all >that rende

Re: OpenDocument as an output format

2006-06-01 Thread Simon Pepping
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:17:26PM -0300, Stefan Ziel wrote: > hi folks, > > creating an Output Handler for OASIS OpenDocument, as mentioned in the > "wish list" don?t seem to make much sense, as XSL:FO can easily be > converted to OpenDocument using a XSLT style sheet. without doing all > that

Re: OpenDocument as an output format

2006-05-31 Thread Jeremias Maerki
That's a fair comment. Still, you have to deal with ODF's ZIP-based container, multiple output files and resources. You won't get around writing some helper code around the XSLT. The other question is whether you can handle all the FO tree features (like inheritance) easily in XSLT. Any interest o

OpenDocument as an output format

2006-05-31 Thread Stefan Ziel
hi folks, creating an Output Handler for OASIS OpenDocument, as mentioned in the "wish list" don“t seem to make much sense, as XSL:FO can easily be converted to OpenDocument using a XSLT style sheet. without doing all that rendering in between ;) best regards stefan ziel clan informatica do