Package: fop
Version: 1:1.0.dfsg-3
Severity: wishlist
It's common to abbreviate “XSL Formatting Objects” as XSL-FO:
both English Wikipedia uses this term (say, [1]), and the XSL
1.1 specification [2] makes a reference to it.
Yet, while FOP may consume XSL-FO, and produce a wide variety of
presentations, the straightforward ‘$ apt-cache search xsl-fo ’
search results in no mention of the package (neither the search
for, say, “rtf” results in one.) Indeed, the description reads:
Description: XML to PDF Translator
FOP is a print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects.
It is a Java application that reads a formatting object
tree and then turns it into a PDF document. The formatting
object tree can be in the form of an XML document (output by
an XSLT engine like xalan) or can be passed in memory as a DOM
Document or (in the case of xalan) SAX events.
Therefore, I suggest the description to be changed as follows:
Description: FOP is an XML formatter driven by XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO.)
FOP is a Java application that reads a formatting object tree and then
turns it into a wide variety of output presentations (including AFP,
PCL, PDF, PNG, PostScript, RTF, TIFF, and plain text), or displays
the result on-screen.
.
The formatting object tree can be in the form of an XML document
(output by an XSLT engine like xalan) or can be passed in memory as a
DOM Document or (in the case of xalan) SAX events.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/
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