Re: DocBook XSL: The Next Generation

Norman Tovey-Walsh <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:24:24 +0100

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>> The goal of the stylesheets is to produce clean, semantically rich
>> HTML(5) that can be beautifully rendered with CSS (and a dash or two of
>> JavaScript, if you wish) in the browser and in print. [...]
>
> Just for clarification: how do we get PDF thesedays?
>
> Does the new stylesheets create PDFs through a HTML -> browser -> PDF 
> workflow? Or will there be separate XSL-FO stylesheets at some day?

My current thinking is that HTML+CSS through some tool like AntennaHouse
Formatter or PrinceXML (or other similar tools) is the way forward. If I
had the time, I’d be happy to work on XSL FO stylesheets. But I don’t
want to do the job badly and I don’t have the time to do it well.

The xslTNG distribution includes HTML-for-paged-media customizations
that (almost) generate reasonable results. I’ll have a PDF version of
the reference guide as an example “real soon now”. (There are a couple
of issues I still want to fix.)

I know that some folks will be disappointed by the lack of XSL FO
support. Programming in XSLT 3.0 is fun, if someone wants to work on the
task! :-) All I ask is that they be well tested and well documented.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Tovey-Walsh <[email protected]>
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