I didn't want to offend you. I CC-ed my answer to Lou Burnard just to 
inform you why, unfortunately for us, there is no TEI add-on for XMLmind 
XML Editor.



Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Hussein Shafie wrote:
>> We have started implementing such add-on several months ago and faced 
>> two problems:
>>
>> * TEI is huge. Even TEI Lite is huge!
> not sure why that is relevant, to be honest?

This relevant for XMLmind which needs to invest an enormous amount of 
time and money to get the job done.



>>
>> * The XSL style sheets for TEI (by Sebastian Rahtz) seem to be 
>> designed to produce a good output only with PassiveTeX, not with the 
>> other XSL-FO processors: Apache FOP, RenderX XEP, XMLmind XSL-FO 
>> Converter, etc.
> If my stylesheets give this impression, it is quite unintentional. I try 
> to test things
> against XEP as a reference. I have not tried XMLmind XSL-FO, I must 
> admit. Maybe
> I should look again at FO.
> 
> is the TEI XSL stylesheets generate valid XSL FO, is there any problem
> thereafter?
> 

The TEI XSL stylesheets indeed generate valid XSL-FOs. But being valid 
is not enough. Being valid does not mean that the PDF, RTF, etc, 
documents created by XSL-FO processors other than PassiveTeX *look* *good*.


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