Re: [xsl] The Future of Browser-Bound XML?

[Francis Norton <francis at redrice dot com>]

Hi Wendell,

Wendell Piez wrote:

> -But- ... a true XSLFO browser with client-side XSLT might find itself 
> a market niche in some world where the better display semantics (than 
> HTML) would make a difference. Financial services, medical 
> informatics, accounting? SEC filings? XML/XSLT could radically improve 
> the transparency of certain kinds of information sets. And FO does 
> have some features that'd be very nice for hypertext.
>
> I've often wondered whether Adobe Acrobat wouldn't make a nice native 
> XML browser if it had built in FO(and SVG!) support and an XSLT 
> engine. Mind you, I'm not asking them to parse HTML ... wouldn't wish 
> that on anyone. 
Well, Adobe make a very nice SVG plug in. It might be possible to make 
an XSL-FO -> SVG converter - probably not a job for (straight) XSLT as 
you'd need access to font characteristics in order to do word-placement 
and wrapping. But an interesting project nonetheless, and you'd get 
support for embedded SVG for free :)

Francis.

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