On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 03:42:01 +0100, Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Halloechen! > >I read that we can't expect Mozilla showing XML documents >that link to an XSL stylesheet with FOs. > >Why isn't it planned to support this (fantastic) standard? > >Tschoe, >Torsten. > I've seen this question raised before in mozilla newsgroups. You might want to try searching the archives using http://groups.google.com. >From a practical point of view, this would require substantial work on the layout engine. The current mozilla layout engine is basically an XML+CSS renderer. Supporting XSL-FO would mean generalizing the engine or writing another one, both of which would be very complicated. Then there's the question of what XSL-FO provides that XML+CSS (and possibly XSLT, which mozilla supports) doesn't. Some people fear that sites would start serving XSL-FO content instead of serving XML with an associated FO stylesheet. Chris Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
