xml-dev - Re: FOs again

[James Robertson <jamesr@steptwo.com.au>]

At 09:23 18/06/2000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

>  > But I think this a market that is well-catered for. If you
>  > look at Word Perfect, FrameMaker+SGML, Cost, etc, there are many
>  > products
>am i being dense? what is the common factor between an ageing
>word-processor, an ageing page formatter with SGML tagged on, and an
>SGML processing setup?

Replace "ageing" with "well-established", "tried and true",
"proven", and I struggle to see your point.

XSL-FO is by definition better because it's newer?

Hmmm.

I presume that during the development process for
XSL-FO, a comprehensive review was made of current
tools and technologies.

This would have generated a list of functionality.

The working group would then have gone through and
ticked or crossed which functions they were going
to match.

If this process was followed (surely it was),
can we have the list? This would provide us with
the best comparison of XSL-FO and other systems.

Or am I being naieve in thinking that such
a process was followed?

J

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Illumination: an out-of-the-box Intranet solution

http://www.steptwo.com.au/
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