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 XM
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
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different "flat text" formats and XSL-FO in "on paper" formats.
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Sent: Wed 4/24/2002 10:06 PM
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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
