Thanks, that's interesting :)

Nicola Harlow
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mukul Gandhi [mailto:mukul_gandhi@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 March 2005 09:46
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  Catch ALL | Failed template rule

I think that the spec does'nt recommend any particular
output format. PDF is the most popular. TEXT is
normally ascii text.

A popular FO engine FOP supports these output formats
"PDF, PCL, PS, SVG, XML, Print, AWT, MIF and TXT".

Regards,
Mukul

--- Nicola Harlow <Nicola.Harlow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> OK, fair enough. I personally don't use it for
> anything but PDF, and
> haven't explored the other options.
>
> What would 'text' produce? Rich text? Word Docs?
> Plain text?
>
> Nicola
>
> Nicola Harlow
> Technical Author
> The Program Management Group plc
> tel:           +44 (0) 1937 547 171
> direct:      +44 (0) 1937 547 165
> fax:         +44 (0) 1937 547 154
> mail:     nicola.harlow@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> web:        http://www.pm-group.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mukul Gandhi [mailto:mukul_gandhi@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 29 March 2005 08:55
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  Catch ALL | Failed template rule
>
> > FO is PDF documents in raw form.
>
> I don't agree!
>
> XSL-FO is "an XML vocabulary for specifying
> formatting
> semantics." (quoted from spec). i.e. using XSL-FO we
> can specify formatting of documents.. You may
> imagine
> it as an enhanced form of CSS. CSS is targeted to
> web
> presentation.. But XSL-FO can be rendered(after
> conversion or if the medium natively supports it) to
> other mediums also (like PDF, text etc).
>
> Regards,
> Mukul
>
>
>
>
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