On Tue, Jun 24 2008 15:46:20 +0100, ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
...
> XSL-FO has been primarily driven by the requirements of technical
> documentation and business documents (invoices, bills, etc.), rather than
> the requirements of highly-designed or typographically-sophisticated
> publications (trade books, magazines, journals). Some of the FO
> implementations add features that provide some typographic and layout
> effects that go beyond the 1.1 standard but those are not sufficient to
> handle the general requirements of books, journals, and magazines. XSL-FO
> 2.0, currently under development by the W3C, aims to improve FO's
> typographic and layout sophistication, but it's unclear at the moment when
> we can expect 2.0 to be available (wheels turn slowly for mature standards).

The XSL 2.0 Requirements document is at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslfo20-req/

The best ways for anyone to help see that XSLT 2.0 serves their needs
are:

 - Complete the requirements survey at
   http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/1/xslfo20requirements/

 - Review the requirements document and provide feedback

Regards,


Tony Graham                         Tony.Graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Director                                  W3C XSL FO SG Invited Expert
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