Re: editorial comments

On 7/17/07, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
> / Rui Lopes <rlopes@di.fc.ul.pt> was heard to say:
>
> | A.2.5 "The XSL Formatter step receives an XSL FO document and renders
> | the content." --> into what format? PDF, SVG, PNG... ? Is it
> | implementation defined, or should we say something about it? If more
> | than one render format is explicitly allowed, how do we specify it?
> | File extension, a "format" option, etc.
>
> I think Alex addressed this with the output option. I think we should
> make PDF the default.

I'm not comfortable making PDF the default but I won't lay down in front
of a train against it.

I'm really not sure there is a default that makes sense for all FO
implementations.


-- 
--Alex Milowski
"The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the
inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language
considered."

Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics

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