Re: AW: FO to RTF

2002-07-29 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi Peter, >. . . > The feasibility of an XSLT transform would > be greatly influenced by the complexity of the mappings of properties > into RTF structures. Yes, and in order to support the various "flavors" of RTF one has to take into account a number of (mostly dirty) tricks, which is proba

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 ima

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 wit

Re: AW: FO to RTF

2002-07-28 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Peter B. West wrote: > 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? I believe it's feasible, I even

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

Re: AW: FO to RTF

2002-07-27 Thread Peter B. West
Hansuli, 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? Peter J.U. Anderegg wrote: > Document formats can