- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 07:28:01 -0500
- To: Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom2@eastlink.ca>
- Cc: public-ppl@w3.org
On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 03:24 -0400, Arved Sandstrom wrote: > [...] > your below, there's nothing that stipulates a > single pass A -> B -> C processing model in FO formatting and rendering. Indeed, I expect implementations tht handle the cross-referencing and indexing on large documents already have a multi-pass implementation. [...] > > And by my exaggerated comment that XSL-FO is a dead end, I just want > to point out that the computational model (= no renderer feedback) > does not work for the more advanced requirements. That's not intrinsic to FO, but a design feature/limitation of 1.x, to facilitate implementation. It's also not related to procedural vs. declarative approaches. Regards, Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml Co-author, 5th edition of "Beginning XML", Wrox, 2012
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