Re: Interesting Aside
Rhett Aultman wrote: Hear hear! XSLT and XSL-FO have been, in my line of work, the killer apps of XML. Exactly. Half a year ago I started to use XML+XSLT+FOP for a variety of formal letters, after I found it too hard to get Word auotmated for simple tasks. Surprisingly, I'm faster to type XML (using Emacs+PSGML) then to fiddle with the various Word positioning and paper format stuff (there's *always* something wrong). Paper and envelope measurements (unscrupolously lifted from http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html) are stored in a separate XML file, together with folding marks, address placement boxes and sensible margin settings, and are selected via an XSLT parameter. Now i can concentrate on content rather than guessing where Word thinks it should put addresses, subjects and headers. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Interesting Aside
Title: Interesting Aside Fop has also provided the 'icing on the cake' in my job which has let me justify a lot of ground-up redesign It is also the most popular bit with the admin staff, who no longer handtype invoices :-) Alistair -Original Message-From: Rhett Aultman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: 25 April 2002 04:27To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: Interesting Aside Hear hear! XSLT and XSL-FO have been, in my line of work, the "killer apps" of XML. Both have been invaluable to me in the management of document formats, and at two separate jobs now, each of them has eventually given me a "niche"- XSLT in maintaining documents in different "flat text" formats and XSL-FO in "on paper" formats. -Original Message- From: Arved Sandstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] attachment: winmail.dat - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Interesting Aside
I thought this was rather interesting. There is an article on XML.COM entitled Government and Finance Industry Urge Caution on XML (http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/04/24/gaonacha.html). Lest we start thinking of XSL as a second-best W3C Recommendation that is viewed slightly askance by many in the XML community (which I think it is :-)), consider the fact that the US government, in the report cited in the article, clearly mentions XSL 1.0 in its discussion of core XML standards (pages 18 34 in the PDF document). I think this is encouraging. Probably for all developers _and_ users. A lot of the other XML technologies out there are getting the limelight, but when it comes right down to it XSL-FO is a solid spec for a solid requirement - producing good-looking paper from XML. Let the other people have fun with Web Services and RDF and schemas - I am perfectly happy with a relatively stable spec that _definitely_ has a strong business case. :-) If you read the report, incidentally, the GAO is not urging caution with respect to XML, per se - it has to do with how the technology is being adopted. Regards, AHS __ Arved Sandstrom Sr Software Developer Platform Products Group Halifax RD Office Hummingbird Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Interesting Aside
Hear hear! XSLT and XSL-FO have been, in my line of work, the killer apps of XML. Both have been invaluable to me in the management of document formats, and at two separate jobs now, each of them has eventually given me a niche- XSLT in maintaining documents in different flat text formats and XSL-FO in on paper formats. -Original Message- From: Arved Sandstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wed 4/24/2002 10:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Subject: Interesting Aside I thought this was rather interesting. There is an article on XML.COM entitled Government and Finance Industry Urge Caution on XML (http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/04/24/gaonacha.html). Lest we start thinking of XSL as a second-best W3C Recommendation that is viewed slightly askance by many in the XML community (which I think it is :-)), consider the fact that the US government, in the report cited in the article, clearly mentions XSL 1.0 in its discussion of core XML standards (pages 18 34 in the PDF document). I think this is encouraging. Probably for all developers _and_ users. A lot of the other XML technologies out there are getting the limelight, but when it comes right down to it XSL-FO is a solid spec for a solid requirement - producing good-looking paper from XML. Let the other people have fun with Web Services and RDF and schemas - I am perfectly happy with a relatively stable spec that _definitely_ has a strong business case. :-) If you read the report, incidentally, the GAO is not urging caution with respect to XML, per se - it has to do with how the technology is being adopted. Regards, AHS __ Arved Sandstrom Sr Software Developer Platform Products Group Halifax RD Office Hummingbird Ltd - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] winmail.dat - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
