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color=#0000ff size=2>If you don't have either a XEP or oXygen license, RenderX's
DocBench bundle is a screaming bargain. For US$100 over the base price of XEP
Desktop, you get both. As I remember, what DocBench provides is the standard
oXygen Professional release, plus XEP in a directory parallel to the FOP
directory. There is very little integration, but then, not much is needed. You
run the standard oXygen, and can invoke a menu function to generate output
through XEP in addition to FOP. One minor disadvantage is that DocBench starts
oXygen from its own batch file, not from the clean oxygen.exe executable (for
Windows). The startup is a little messy, and leaves a Command Prompt window
hanging around.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>I no longer run DocBench per se, but instead have separate
oXygen and XEP installations, and I call XEP from command-line build scripts.
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=783125219-05112007><FONT face=Georgia
color=#0000ff size=2>As for FOP vs XEP, I can only speak to FOP 0.92 vs XEP
4.10. The winner then was XEP by a mile. FOP-generated PDFs had trouble with
long tables over page breaks, and other problems that XEP sailed through. I hear
the FOP guys have made great strides since 0.92, and I plan to give 0.94 another
look. But here's a strong hint as to which one's better: the PDF for Bob
Stayton's DocBook XSL book is generated with XEP. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=783125219-05112007><FONT face=Georgia
color=#0000ff size=2>That said, I caution you that there's just no way the
RenderX guys have caught up the latest oXygen 9.0 release, which only occurred a
few days ago. If you buy DocBench today, you will almost certainly get
oXygen 8.2 in the bundle. However, the oXygen guys are very good about sending
you the latest license file, even for DocBench users.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> oxygen-user-bounces@oxygenxml.com
[mailto:oxygen-user-bounces@oxygenxml.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Khaled
Aly<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, November 05, 2007 2:09 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
oxygen-user@oxygenxml.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [oXygen-user]
Docbench<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Hi<BR><BR>Would oXygen or users on list have more information about
this bundle: <A
href="http://www.renderx.com/tools/docbench.html">http://www.renderx.com/tools/docbench.html</A>?
Advantages it may offer over standalone oXygen 9 for purpose of technical
authoring. It refers to DocBook/TEI, but not DITA, which is supported by oXygen
9. In which ways may XEP (one of the main bundle components, which can also be
integrated with oXygen 9) be distinct from or advantageous to FOP .94? And
otherwise, would the added value be mainly the offered stylesheets? And would it
be the same oXygen UI?<BR><BR>Thanks<BR>ka </BODY></HTML>