On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 08:33:52AM -0600, Victor Mote wrote: > Simon Pepping wrote: > > > I find this certainly interesting. IN principle, it would > > allow client programs, say an editor, to construct its own > > implementation of the FOTree interface. > > Thanks for your interest. I had to think about your response for a bit. I > guess it depends on what kind of editor you are thinking of. The aXSL > interface is currently a read-only concept. IOW, the implementation will > create the tree, and users of the interface will only be able to extract > data from it. So you are perhaps thinking of something that edits upstream > of the FO Tree, perhaps editing the underlying semantic XML?
My choice of the word editor was not very good. I am actually thinking of word processors or typesetting systems that request layout and rendering services. They can do that by firing SAX events for the fo objects that they construct to represent their layout request. But they can also build the FO tree, if the application has a clear interface for it. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.nl
