FOP Redesign
I don't know if you've been following the activities on the FOP mailing list, but they are in the process of doing a core redesign. Based on some of the comments on the XSmiles features page I posed a few quick question to the FOP team. Their response seems to have been fairly positive, so I was wondering if any members of the XSmiles team would be able to post to the FOP list with some details as to how XSmiles uses FOP and how integration between the two could be enhanced. In paticular there is a movement afoot to allow a more dynamic rendering of the FOP content using Swing components, as opposed to the current more static viewing approach. Support for dynamic changes to the DOM tree (via scripting) may also be possible. It looks like there is a great opportunity here for synergy between the two groups. The possibility exists for the XSmiles and FOP teams to develop an elegant approach to integrating their technologies that could be extended to include Batik. The vision of a single, cross-platform client that supports all of the major W3 standards may be attainable! Jason Foster - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Redesign Goals and XSmiles
snip/ I don't know what's meant with Scripting support. XSL:FO does not support any scripting functionality AFAIK. I'm guessing here, but couldn't someone use the ECMAScript DOM bindings to manipulate the FO tree? It would be neat (I don't know about practical or useful) to be able to mess with the DOM and have FOP update the rendering in real time. Jason - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Support for float
I'm just curious, as I see messages talking about re-architecting, what the plans are for supporting the float element? I've searched the archives and couldn't find any substantive discussions on the matter. Thanks! Jason Foster - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Support for float
In spite of the lack of substantive discussion, fo:float will definitely be supported in the redesign. Hooray! Marginalia in DocBook here I come! Jason - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Redesign Goals and XSmiles
I have been working with the XSmiles browser and have been quite enjoying the experience of mixing XML content. In their documentation, the XSmiles team mentions a few things that the current version of FOP doesn't support: The limitations of FOP itself include: * FOP's AWTRenderer is a previewer, which prints contents one page at the time to a graphics object. Therefore changing content after rendering or using an active background would need rewrite of the renderer to use awt/swing components. * Scripting is not supported. Adding script support could be laborious, because DOM tree is no longer visible to the renderer, which handles the FOP Area Tree. I was wondering whether there is any desire to address these requirements? If you haven't tried XSmiles, I would heartily suggest taking a look, as it is a pretty amazing client if you're trying to be as close to be bleeding edge of W3 technologies as possible. The ability to do things such as merge live FO and XForms elements would be pretty cool. Thanks! Jason Foster - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
