On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Ron Wheeler <rwhee...@artifact-software.com > wrote:
> The DITA-OT (DITA Open Toolkit) (http://www.ditaopentoolkit.org/) is an > open source project that depends on FOP. > It takes DITA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_ > Architecture) XML input and produces a number of different document types. > One of the main output types is PDF and it uses FOP to do this. It takes > DITA input (xml) and produces an intermediate set of files that are > processed by FOP to produce a PDF. It can also produce HTML > There is a Maven plug-in to control the production in an IDE environment. > It calls all the bits and pieces required to take the raw DITA XML files > and output a document in PDF in the target folder. > > There is some interest in adding DITA-OT to the Apache family and in my > opinion, the XMLGraphics group seems like a natural home and the FOP > sub-project might be a good place for DITA-OT to reside. > > DITA-OT is a large community of users but a small community of developers. > There are also a few enhancement ideas that would require FOP enhancements > to complete. > In addition, my own belief is that the FOP community could add some > technical advice to the DITA-OT community that would be helpful. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/ is the download page. DITA-OT is > currently distributed under the Apache License V2.0. > > I am not one of the main players in the group but have taken on the task > of seeing if there is a possibility of opening the discussion with the FOP > group. > > Would there be any interest in considering adding front-end XML processing > to the FOP production project? FOP already has a front-end XML processor. It's called XSLT. It is provided solely as a convenience function. Some of us have doubts about whether that was a good idea or not, since it tends to generate a lot of traffic unrelated to FOP's core function. Why do you want *more* front end processing and why isn't XSLT sufficient? > > > Ron > > -- > Ron Wheeler > President > Artifact Software Inc > email: rwhee...@artifact-software.com > skype: ronaldmwheeler > phone: 866-970-2435, ext 102 > >
