Let's talk component software (or blame monolithic MicrosSoft)!
- Formatting has to be separated strictly from rendering
o A clean and stable interface has to be defined (why not by data
representations of powerful PDF?)
o The renderer has to control the processing sequence.
- FOP does what the XSL:FO specs say - no more and no less:
o external-graphics are not really specified in XSL:FO, so let additional
attributes pass and let the renderer do the job.
o foreign-object is by chance SVG: let foreign be foreign and pass
foreign-object's without checks thru to the renderer.
The area of contributors and hackers is renderers and foreign-objects, so
that the FOP core can be kept clean and preserved from release dependencies
(Batik, JAI etc.)
Hansuli Anderegg, Zurich
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