Subject: Re: foo ... bar Re: Q: XML+XSL transforms to a print-ready format
From: "Paul Tchistopolskii" <paul@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 12:54:40 -0700
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> > As to whole running heads stuff. It may be interesting to
> > render such ( exotic ) usecase you are talking about.
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> Running headings are not exotic. They are very common in books. I would
> guess that if you picked up two or three books right now, one of them at
> least would have running headings.
I picked up 10 books, trying to find something that look
'not renderable'. There are just different page headers there.
Each of our 40 testcases at www.renderx.com has a
page header.
> Dictionary-style headings are slightly exotic but they are just a special
> case of running headings.
Maybe it'l be possible to get the presize example of what could be
easily rendered by 'typical day-to-day formatter' but not by XSL FO
based formatter ?
.xml input ( .xml content ) + expected PDF output looks like
a good way to specify the usecase. Unfortunately without
such a specification we may spend a very long time trying to guess
what is considered to be a real problem with "runnig heads"
for XSL FO formatter but not for 'typical day-to-day' formatter.
> Note that XSL doesn't currently support running headings (at least not when
> a section doesn't get its own page sequence), so if the focus is solely on
> implementing XSL 1.0, you could get away with not supporting running
> headings.
The focus is to show that XSL FO is not a dead meat. Or to understand
that it is dead meat - so it is not worth supporting it.
> However, I guarantee that, if not the first, then the second person that
> comes along wanting to produce a real book with XSL will wish your product
> supported running headings.
> If book publishing is not your focus, again, you could probably get away
> with not supporting running headings.
Book publishing is not our focus yet, but clean experiment with
'typical day-to-day formatters' and XSL FO formatter is.
Rgds.Paul.
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