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cMADsc
cMADsc
Greetings all, I have been using XML for a while and a have recently come across XML-FO (formatting objects). XMLFO can be used for webpages to help structure a site. Although, since it does have limited use in browsers is anyone using XMLFO? What are your thoughts on XMLFO? ----------------------------- "There are ones that say they can and there are those who actually do." "...u can not learn programming in a class, you have to learn it on your own."
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Arild Fines
Arild Fines
Are you referring to eXtensible Stylesheet Language/Formatting Objects - XSL/FO? I have never heard of anything called XMLFO.


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cMADsc
cMADsc
Yes!


-----------------------------
"There are ones that say they can and there are those who actually do."

"...u can not learn programming in a class, you have to learn it on your own."

-----------------------------"There are ones that say they can and there are those who actually do.""...u can not learn programming in a class, you have to learn it on your own."
Arild Fines
Arild Fines
quote:
Original post by cMADsc
XMLFO can be used for webpages to help structure a site.

This is a usage of XSL/FO I haven''t encountered. Could you elaborate on what you mean by this?
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Although, since it does have limited use in browsers is anyone using XMLFO? What are your thoughts on XMLFO?

For a current project, we are maintaining documentation in an XML format. We use XSL to translate this XML into HTML for webpage viewing, and into XSL/FO from which we generate PDF documents for printing. This is working out pretty well, and relieves us of the pain of having to maintain two separate sets of documentation.

XSL/FO is a pretty big specification, though, with lots of tags and attributes to keep track off since it''s basically intended as some sort of typesetting language.




"If there is a God, he is a malign thug."
-- Mark Twain
--AnkhSVN - A Visual Studio .NET Addin for the Subversion version control system.[Project site] [IRC channel] [Blog]
cMADsc
cMADsc
Sorry about my description of XMLFO I know it is a little vague and probably is off but thanks for input on it.


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"There are ones that say they can and there are those who actually do."

"...u can not learn programming in a class, you have to learn it on your own."

-----------------------------"There are ones that say they can and there are those who actually do.""...u can not learn programming in a class, you have to learn it on your own."

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