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RE: FO
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- Subject: RE: FO
- From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism at lexica dot net>
- Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 15:56:49 -0700
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
At 09:30 2-08-2000 +1200, Matthew Bentley wrote:
> >1. XSL-FO is still a working draft. They specifically tell you that they
> >will not be constrained by implementations when making changes. It is
> >also this changing specification that drives the development of FOP so,
> >as soon as it's possible after a new draft is out, they update FOP to
> >comply with the new draft... and that will not change until XSL-FO
> >becomes a standard.
>
>And...? XSLT is also still a working draft (Or a recommendation - I forget
>the difference).
? The difference is exactly what the first poster was talking about. XSLT
1.0 is a W3C Recommendation. XSLT 1.0 is not going to change (modulo
errata). XSLT 1.1 or XSLT 2.0 may be added, but XSLT 1.0 is not going to
change. Its status section says, "It is a stable document and may be used
as reference material or cited as a normative reference from other documents."
XSL proper is a Working Draft, which means that it is explicitly subject to
change. Its status section says, "It is a draft document and may be
updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time."
>Yet I would consider XSLT to have an amount of stability (Within reason).
>This doesn't answer my question.
>Secondly, FOP is only compatible with the old working draft, far as I know.
That's true. The instability of XSL is the problem here; FOP
implementation began, and then XSL changed (or rather, continued to
change). FOP is trying to keep up, but XSL will almost certainly change
again before it reaches stable Recommendation status. Implementation in
XSLT can be done in a production environment. XSL implementation should
not be considered anything other than experimental until at least Candidate
Recommendation status.
-Chris
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