I think anything we can do to encourage the use of XSL-FO is a "good thing", especially now that XSL is finally a W3C Recommendation. +1
Regards, Karen Lease Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > > Hi people, > > recently, some code was donated to the Apache Cocoon project in order to > connect it with JFor (www.jfor.org) which is a FO->RTF processor. > > It appeared evident to me (and to others, as I discovered later) that > jfor and FOP are doing different things but could be an advantage for > both jfor developers, jfor users, FOP users and FO visibility in general > to join forces. > > Bertrand, here attached, is the main developer behind the project and he > already agreed on donating the code to the ASF. > > IMO, rather than creating another project, it would be best to merge > jfor code with FOP to allow yet another (and widely used) binary format > to render FO in. > Technical details are not that important at the moment, but Bertrand > already stated his flexibility in reshaping jfor code in order to make > it easier/cleaner/more-manageable the merging. > > This said, in order for the donation to take place, I'm officially > requesting a vote from the FOP developers community. The Apache XML PMC > is already informed and will accept any position taken by the community. > > So, here it is, please vote on the following question: > > would you like to accept jfor code and give Bertand Delacretaz committer > status in order to perform the merging on the FOP code following the > technical directions that the FOP dev community will find more > appropriate? > > I remind that only people with committer status are entitled to place a > binding vote, but I suggest everybody on this list to express their vote > and, in case of negative vote, explain their reasons so that we can > properly deal with them. > > Thanks to all. > > Stefano. > > P.S. Sorry for the formality, people but this is legal stuff so I'm > required to wear my ASF member hat :) > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
