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Re: [docbook-apps] Question on two Docbook/CSS-related tools

From: Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>
To: Edward Bishop <ebishopus1 at yahoo dot com>
Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:35:40 +0100
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Question on two Docbook/CSS-related tools
References: <20041112214408.18810.qmail@web12823.mail.yahoo.com>

Edward Bishop wrote:

Apparently no one has informed http://big.faceless.org/ of this,
their Report Generator product uses XHTML + CSS2 to produce
professional-quality PDF output, simpler and faster than FOP, I might
add.  ;-)

I'm not saying that it is nonsense to generate print output from XML+CSS. There are many cases when this approach could work very well. But rendering of complex DocBook documents is not this case, IMHO.

Jirka

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