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Subject: Re: [legalxml-courtfiling] Feedback Request/Request to Continue W  ork of Documents Subcommittee




From: "Dallas Powell" <dpowell@tybera.com>
To: "John Messing" <jmessing@law-on-line.com>,"Winters,Roger" <Roger.Winters@METROKC.GOV>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:31:01 -0600






PDF and XSLT do not include the functions of a formatter.  It is the
formatter that paginates, line wraps, and determines spacing based on font
faces, font sizes, kerning, and line space settings not XSLT or PDF.

Within XSLT you could insert a page marker based on some element and a givin
condition of that element, but, it is the formatter that keeps track of the
line lengths, spacing, wrapping, margins, and pagination that make the
proper insert.  The elements (tags) alone do not provide adequate
information to make those types of decisions.

That is a motivating factor behind going to paragraphs.  Paragraphs can
contextually be marked with elements, giving ID and IDrefs, which provides a
markup based reference rather than a formatted based reference.

Dallas