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Subject: Re: Q) Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Converting from DocBook/SGML to DocBook/XML
At 01:43 PM 12/07/2001 +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: >Jeffrey_Franks@i-o.com writes: ><snip> > > Does DSSSL work better than Xsl for rendering PDF? > >not really, no. You have a choice of at least 4 tools [1] to render XSL >FO, and one to render DSSSL. so your chances of success are higher. ><snip> >[1] FOP, PassiveTeX, XEP, Antenna House Just to expand on this from a semi-casual user's standpoint: 1. The XEP and Antenna House products are commercial. I've checked into the pricing and they are way out of line for a small business or individual consultant's budget. In fact the business models of both companies specifically exclude individual price points and focus on corporate or server based pricing. Unfortunately, as you might expect, I perceive them as being the most functional and easiest to implement and use of the group. XEP is Java based and I think Antenna House is a Windows GUI and API (ActiveX) tool. 2. PassiveTeX may ultimately the most flexible and powerful environment because of its relationship with TeX. You would need to know TeX quite well in order to exploit this potential. When last I looked PassiveTeX was targeted only at the TEI XML dialect. It's hard to believe there would not be a DocBook version around but I'm not aware of it and willing to admit ignorance (and accept help) on this count. I'm not sure how difficult it is to configure PassiveTeX to the Docbook dialect. It would likely depend on how much of docbook you use or need. 3. FOP just seems to move so slowly. It doesn't seem to be a priority with the Apache organization. The reasons from this may relate to different thread on either this list or the XML-FO list regarding the interests of some of the major industry players with respect to FO. FOP is a Jave based tool set. 4. DSSSL has always seemed to be "from Mars" to me in spite of its ISO standing. I think my perception may be more general and as a consequence support for DSSSL has never reached any sort of commercial critical mass. (Of course these thoughts have been done to death before and elsewhere.) Hoping to be corrected and enlightened on any or all of these points. Regards. ...edN
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