From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2005-11-13T19:22:41+09:00 Subject: Re: DocBook to PDF Nicholas Van Weerdenburg writes: > Interestingly, xsl-fo was the first concept behind xslt > (t=transformations) which is used to mangle xml docs from one format > to another. During the production of "xsl" they need to general > transformations became apparent, so they split xsl into xsl-t > (transformations) and xsl-fo (formatting objects). Now everyone uses > xslt and xsl-fo is languishing in near obscurity, even though it was > the initial impetus behind the whole xsl thing. This may well be because the only use of a printed XSL-FO spec is to slay people with it... ;-) Seriously, I think it is the biggest single specification ever published by the w3c; and not exactly easy to use. No wonder it doesn't really get popular. I think a good XML+CSS->PDF processor could do the same stuff and was far easier to understand and use. But I don't know of such a thing. > Nicholas Van Weerdenburg -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org