I think we're having trouble understanding what you mean by "formatted plain
text". Surely it's either formatted or it's plain?

Plain text to me means stuff like this email - fixed width font, no
formatting apart from spaces and newlines.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kai Hackemesser [mailto:kaha@xxxxxx] 
> Sent: 13 July 2007 20:35
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  XSL-FO plain text processor?
> 
> Hi, Brian,
> 
> My source is an XML file. I need an output in formatted plain 
> text. That means, there is text arranged in a table like 
> style, some text is right aligned, some text is indented, 
> there are free lines and it needs to be page-broken. So 
> that's why I started with XSL-FO. FOP is 80% ok, but I need a 
> better output quality.
> 
> Ciao!
> 
> Kai
> 
> Brian Martinez schrieb:
> > If you're looking to create just a plain text file, I would 
> think XSLT 
> > would be a more suitable choice than XSL-FO.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > b.
> >
> >   
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Kai Hackemesser [mailto:kaha@xxxxxx]
> >> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 8:29 AM
> >> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject:  XSL-FO plain text processor?
> >>
> >> Hi there,
> >>
> >> I'm looking for a solution to create a formatted plain 
> text file from 
> >> XML. Currently I try apache FOP Processor with XSL-FO input. but I
> >>     
> > can't
> >   
> >> get it looking as I want, I always have misformations, 
> missing or to 
> >> much spaces or empty rows, even clipped characters. I would like to
> >>     
> > know
> >   
> >> if you know any alternatives to that?
> >>
> >> Kind regards,
> >> Kai