Andreas S. wrote:
My company is creating datasheets still in Word or Adobe tools as single
written document.
I’m looking for a tool for higher automation.
I’m asking me what technical format standard to use as technical baseline”.
I saw your article “HTML5 as an alternative to DITA and DocBook“.
http://www.xmlmind.com/tutorials/HTML5Books/HTML5Books.html
Also my observation on DITA is the high complexity.
“HTML5 as an alternative to DITA and DocBook“ (that is, our "ebooks"),
DITA, DocBook are all technologies for technical writers, that is,
humans writing prose.
I like more “XSL-FO” together with simple database.
My question is there any “WYSIWYG” Editor available using XSL-FO as base
technology?
XSL-FO (https://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/) is a low-level page description
language.
We sell an XSL-FO processor (XSL-FO to MS-Word's DOCX to make it simple;
http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/) and while most of our customers use
an XSLT "stylesheet" (https://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/) to automatically
generate the XSL-FO, some of them generate XSL-FO programmatically
(program written in Java, Python, C++, etc).
To our knowledge, none of them use a *Visual* XSL-FO Editor to create a
template based on XSL-FO and bind this template to a database.
That's why, here at XMLmind Software, we have never tested products such as
Altova StyleVision, an XSL:FO Stylesheet Designer,
https://www.altova.com/stylevision
or
J4L Components' FO Designer 2.16, XSL-FO Editor for Apache FOP and
Oracle APEX,
http://www.java4less.com/fopdesigner/fodesigner.php
Sorry but we cannot really help you here.
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