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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:47:21 -0300
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From: Arved Sandstrom <Arved_37@chebucto.ns.ca>
Subject: Re: Using C2 for docs
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At 02:41 PM 7/20/01 -0400, Berin Loritsch wrote:
>Call to FOP guys:
>
>If you can come up with a DocBook to XSL:FO markup stylesheet that is
>standard to all projects, it would help out tremendously.  Start with
>the docbook2xhtml.xsl stylesheet I have in Avalon's CVS (as it has the
>subset of DocBook we would most be concerned with).
>
>Why did I come up with my own stylesheet instead of using Norman Walsh's?
>Because for me it was easier.  I have looked at Norman's stylesheets, and
>I quickly get lost due to all the logic he puts in there to automatically
>spit out transformed files.  90% of what we need can be produced with 10%
>of the effort that goes into Norman's sheets.  The remaining 10% (that
>takes up the remaining 90% of the effort) can be added as we need it.

Can do. I'll put it out as another request on fop-dev, because, after all, 
not everyone is on this list.

There are 2 reasons we need a somewhat customized stylesheet:

1) FOP is immature: it will not handle everything that Norm's DocBook->FO 
stylesheets produce, although with your simplified/reduced docbook2xhtml.xsl 
stylesheet this may not be too bad; and

2) the DocBook -> XSL-FO stylesheets are themselves immature at this point; 
there are a number of DocBook elements that, once transformed, produce FO 
that doesn't look all that hot even with AntennaHouse XSLFormatter or 
RenderX XEP, let alone FOP.

Regards,
Arved Sandstrom

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