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Peter Murray-Rust writes: > >I'd be interested to see a comparison between this 60 page document > >rendered with XSLFO/FOP, and the same document rendered using > >XML+CSS, and a good browser's print engine. > > I think the main differences are that > - XSL-FO provides paginated output, and supports page references. I am not sure I buy that. Do no browsers do pagination??? > - XSL-FO does not require a browser, so can be used in batch mode for a > series of documents. fair point, but making Mozilla or Opera's renderer run in batch must be at least possible? > - FOP implementers are responsive to the needs and views of members of > this list - most browser manufacturers are not and most CSS implementations > are incomplete. it sound seductive, but thats not an entirely convincing argument, you know.... > some of use appear to be confused about the roles of XSL-FO and CSS, is > there a useful overview that could help us? I am not sure I have ever read an unbiased one... they tend to have been written by rabid anti-FO people or rabid anti-CSS people. I too would like to read this. Sebastian *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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