As for a 'location' for JAFOP, how about the Objects for Formatting Objects (OFFO[2])?
Web Maestro Clay
[1]
http://mail-archives.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg? [EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=15979
[2] http://offo.sourceforge.net/
On Nov 27, 2004, at 12:06 AM, Jeremias Maerki wrote:
I'm extremely sorry about not making it clearer that I don't intend to
launch a new API discussion for FOP or that I don't want to force anyone
to do anything. This JAFOP thing is just a personal project I thought
others might be interested in.
Thank you for your suggestions. However, I don't think that EXSLFO would
be the right place as it is focused to standardize on the XSL-FO
language as such, not necessarily on Java API bindings. It could, on the
other side, be launched as a JSR if there is sufficient interest in the
community. It also occured to me that the API might be strong enough to
accomodate other dialects like SVG. But these are just random synaptic
shots.
On 27.11.2004 06:36:47 Glen Mazza wrote:As long as a FOP user is not *required* to use it, (i.e., they can ignore JAFOP entirely and still call FOP's native JAXP-based API as in our embed examples), and as long as JAFOP is implemented using our current API, then I don't think I would have much problem with it. I don't want us to lose our present JAXP capabilities though--JAXP is a useful skill for our users to become proficient in, and something I would like us to continue promoting.
But your idea -- an interface that allows for run-time swapping of FO
processors (like JAXP allows for Xalan and Saxon to be switched) is not
bad at all. I wish the folks at AH and RX would create such an
interface that we could just implement. Two thoughts come to mind: (1)
perhaps we should try to reactivate that EXSLFO group and move this
topic to them, and (2) you may wish to take a look at the JAXP
specification, if you haven't recently, and see if there are any
issues/ideas/things you perhaps forgot to take into account, etc., with
JAFOP. That spec should show you what needs to be done for a common
interface to be accepted, including things you may have missed.
Jeremias Maerki
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