[odf-discuss] Native ODF support in browsers

[Daniel Carrera]

On Mon, 2006-23-10 at 04:37 -0400, Lars D. Noodén wrote:
> What I am wondering about is the practicality of a generic XML rendering 
> engine which can handle arbitrary DTDs, schemas.

It's not possible to create a generic XML renderer that relies only on
DTDs or Schemas. More likely, you need, for each schema, an XSLT
transformation that turns it into XSL-FO and then use an XSL-FO
renderer.

At least... that's the solution that the W3C had in mind.

In practise, XSL-FO renderers are difficult to make. It's just too
tempting to go via HTML instead. It's so much easier to convert your
format to HTML, and it's so much easier to make an HTML renderer.

FWIW, I only know of one FOSS project doing XSL-FO rendering, and that's
Apache FOP, and it doesn't have complete support yet.

Daniel.
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