Re: AW: FO to RTF

2002-07-29 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Peter, I tentatively suggested using XSLT to generate RTF a little while ago, but I had no idea whether it was feasible. The main question would seem to be: is RTF a text-only format or a binary format? Can anyone answer that one for us? AFAIK, everything in RTF can be expressed with

Re: AW: FO to RTF

2002-07-29 Thread Peter B. West
Bertrand, Thanks for clarifying that. The feasibility of an XSLT transform would be greatly influenced by the complexity of the mappings of properties into RTF structures. If the inheritance model of XSLFO had no ready parallel in RTF, that set of transformations would be a nightmare, I

RE: AW: FO to RTF

2002-07-27 Thread Victor Mote
Peter B. West wrote: - Start - I tentatively suggested using XSLT to generate RTF a little while ago, but I had no idea whether it was feasible. The main question would seem to be: is RTF a text-only format or a binary format? Can anyone answer that one for us? - End - I am no

AW: FO to RTF

2002-07-24 Thread J.U. Anderegg
Rendering RTF from the FOP area tree will produce a document edited without template (.dot). RTF is a revisable format - not a formatted document format. XSL:FO is an extensive formatting language without any kind document elements (like Adobe's e-Book), macros or stylesheets in the original