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RE: Support for XSL-FO



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse Heines [mailto:heines@cs.uml.edu]
> On page 22 of the first edition of Michael's XSLT Programmer's
> Reference, he states: "... The [XSL-FO] standard is not yet 
> stable, and
> the only products that implement it are at a very early stage of
> development."  With a copyright date of 2000, I assume that this
> statement was written in late 1999 or early 2000.
> 
> Is this statement still true?  I found one implementation at 
> RenderX.com
> with a freely downloadable evaluation version (and quite pricey
> commercial version at $5,000), but so far I have not found 
> others at the
> same level.

http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect1/N303.html

Half way down, XSL-FO Processors.

RenderX, Arbortext and Antenna House are all commercial offerings.
fop and PassiveTex are not.

Of the two, I've heard better reports of PassiveTex, if
you can get your head round the tex installation.

HTH DaveP 

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