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Subject: RE: [xsl] Catch ALL | Failed template rule
From: Mukul Gandhi <mukul_gandhi@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:45:53 -0800 (PST)

I think that the spec does'nt recommend any particular
output format. PDF is the most popular. TEXT is
normally ascii text. 

A popular FO engine FOP supports these output formats
"PDF, PCL, PS, SVG, XML, Print, AWT, MIF and TXT".

Regards,
Mukul

--- Nicola Harlow <Nicola.Harlow@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> OK, fair enough. I personally don't use it for
> anything but PDF, and
> haven't explored the other options.
> 
> What would 'text' produce? Rich text? Word Docs?
> Plain text?
> 
> Nicola
> 
> Nicola Harlow 
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> The Program Management Group plc
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mukul Gandhi [mailto:mukul_gandhi@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 29 March 2005 08:55
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [xsl] Catch ALL | Failed template rule
> 
> > FO is PDF documents in raw form. 
> 
> I don't agree!
> 
> XSL-FO is "an XML vocabulary for specifying
> formatting
> semantics." (quoted from spec). i.e. using XSL-FO we
> can specify formatting of documents.. You may
> imagine
> it as an enhanced form of CSS. CSS is targeted to
> web
> presentation.. But XSL-FO can be rendered(after
> conversion or if the medium natively supports it) to
> other mediums also (like PDF, text etc).
> 
> Regards,
> Mukul
> 
> 
> 
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