Thomas Zastrow wrote: > Maciej Hanski schrieb: >> That was the right thing to do. Now, if there were more people >> interested in this, you could start by collecting all information >> needed to implement this stylesheet in one place, e.g. in a new Scribus >> Wiki article. Most of it can be done by non-programmers, e.g. finding >> out how to match elements and attributes in source and target file >> formats. Then, you could submit it as a proposal for Summer of Code 2008 >> ideas: >> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Summer_of_code_2008#Blue_Sky_Ideas , >> or even, depending on your determination, collect and offer money to a >> skilled programmer. >> >> cheers >> Maciej >> >> > > I have a *lot* ideas what would be possible with XML / XSL / SLA - > conversion.
Call it instinct, but you were the first person that came into my mind when I thought of "skilled programmers" in the context of XSL, perhaps because of your previous postings on XSL-FO:) >But I will not start with this work until there is a stable > version of the SLA format. I am fully aware of the major obstacles: the current file format being a moving target, the new file format obviously far away from being stable, without any visible progress: http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=111 On the other hand, there would not be much need for XSL transformations to the new file format until the 1.4 branch gets stable, and we are probably talking of two years or so, judging by the roadmap and the current progress. In the meantime, and probably some time after that, 1.3.3.* branch will be _the_ Scribus version meant for production, and there seems to exist real demand among Scribus users for such imports right now. So, it would make some sense to me, if an ambitious programmer started to do some preliminary work on such XSL stylesheets. just my the ? cents Maciej
