Re: [xsl] Support for XSL-FO

[Joerg Heinicke <joerg dot heinicke at gmx dot de>]

Hello Jesse,

as you can see at http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/ XSL FO is a W3C 
recommendation since 15th October 2001. So this "standard" is really 
stable. I think all implementations try to implement the recommendation 
as far as possible. The most implementations only have problems with 
supporting *all* features, e.g. FOP 
http://xml.apache.org/fop/limitations.html

Regards,

Joerg

Jesse Heines wrote:

> 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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