- From: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 09:23:11 +0000
- To: xsl-fo Community Group <public-ppl@w3.org>
Trying to summarize, at least Tony's view on this. We are looking to find a way of making FO (as is or extended) easier to use? By whatever method we can. Is that a fair summary / goal? regards On 6 January 2014 09:12, Tony Graham <tgraham@mentea.net> wrote: > On Sat, January 4, 2014 1:14 pm, Dave Pawson wrote: >> On 4 January 2014 12:47, Tony Graham <tgraham@mentea.net> wrote: >>> On Thu, January 2, 2014 3:45 pm, Arved Sandstrom wrote: >>>> I think you hit on a central point, which is education: tutorials, for >>>> example. XSL-FO is not suffering low rates of adoption because it's >>>> more >>>> difficult to use than other technologies, it's suffering because it >>>> hasn't been sold that well. > ... >> Backing up a bit. Arved has a valid point here. >> IMHO DSSSL bombed (at least partially) due to lack of 'education' >> (read usable documentation). > > We tried, Dave, Ken, and I: > > http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dsssldoc/contributors.html > > Apart from DSSSL being 'too much, too little, too late', it also lost out > to XML fever, where most people jumped-ship to XSLT and XSL-FO as soon as > that was an option. Now CSS for print is the Next Big Thing, and XSL-FO > is on the diminishing end. > > Regards, > > > Tony. > > -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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