On 26/03/2014 6:34 PM, Luis Bernardo wrote:
Since the FO in FOP is the same as the FO in XSL-FO and think there
will be consensus that FOP will only ingest FO natively. That is my
opinion too.
DITA-OT currently produces valid FO and there is no desire to change
this unless FOP requires this.
This is a working setup that leverages the current power of FOP to
produce PDF documents from an OASIS standard.
The role of the DITA sub-project would be to support the conversion of
DocBook and DITA to FO and HTML and other formats through XSLT or other
XML transformation tools.
Now, in principle, I have no objection in having a new sub-project
under the XMLGraphics umbrella that will convert DITA input to FO
output, specially if that leads to an expanded user base for FOP.
My hope would be that the huge DITA user community would help fund and
support the FOP and XMLGraphics community and that the XML expertise
here in the XMLGraphics team would help the DITA community to improve
the tools available to convert DITA to useful output - HTML/CSS, OO,
MS-Office, RTF, interactive Javascript/HTML5/CSS output and outputs that
we can not predict today.
The DITA community consists of mainstream commercial institutions that
depend on XML to integrate their technical and commercial documentation.
My inquiry is a first step in a long process but I think that there is a
lot of mutual benefit to incorporating DITA-OT into Apache's XMLGraphics
projects.
Ron
On 3/26/14, 7:12 PM, Ron Wheeler wrote:
On 26/03/2014 2:59 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
On 2014-03-26 Christopher R. Maden wrote:
Although I don’t get a vote, I completely agree with Glenn that DITA
integration into FOP is completely inappropriate.
+1
FOP consumes standardized XSL-FO.
DITA-OT should produce standardized XSL-FO. Period ;-)
It does but FOP does not support all PDF features so some of the
things that people can express in DITA's XML can not produce the PDF
output that people want/need.
>From my POV it has nothing to do with FOP, it is rather XSLT (or
whatever) part.
But I agree FOP could be enhanced to be more conformant to the
standard. It requires engaging developers and sponsors.
I would hope that engaging the DITA community that has the need and
the resources will get the support for these features.
The separation into tool-making and document making communities makes
it harder for the tool guys to get funded or staffed.
The document makers don't have the knowhow to fix the tools.
There is a lot of potential locked up in the current situation.
Some ideas appear in this mailing list from time to time.
The DITA community has not been very good at pestering the FOP team
to get things fixed.
They have tended to accept that FOP is static and can not respond to
the needs of the document makers.
Jan
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