[OpenJade-devel] Re: about fot (openjade)

[Karl E. <ke...@gn...>]

"cristian tornador antolin" <cri...@mi...> writes:

> I think that the pages models should be unique, and a page-model could
> have one or more regions, although at the moment, it supports only one
> region (and each region can have a header and a footer, of course).
> So, if sombebody want to say me a correct result to ps.fot, I haven't
> problem to change it. It's only a format- out invented by me :p
> (xml). The values are saved in the struct FOTBuilder::StModel
> therefore it's easy the change.

Thanks for the additional info.  Thus far, I'm not familiar with the FOT
output in general; of course, we should keep in mind what James Clark
said some years ago:

    Making the backends useable independently of the rest of
    Jade. Create a small program (using an XML parser like expat rather
    than SP) that reads the FOT file and calls an FOT backend. This
    would require some tweaks to the FOT format and to the FOT
    interface. The point of this is that it would then be possible to
    use XSLT with DSSSL flow objects.

    Cf. http://xml.coverpages.org/clark-dssslFuture.html

It looks to me you are no the right track :)

> Ok, that's correct. But not only miss to modify DTD with the
> define-page-model. It should enhance with page-sequence and all the
> flow-objects and new characteristics that update the version 1.3.3.  I
> will make a good documentation about this. The DTD is dsssl/fot.dtd.

I do not want to urge you - my hope was independent documentation on
dsssl/fot.dtd would already be available.  Now I understand, that
fot.dtd must be changed according to your implementation; that's also
okay with me :)

Your plans for the future concerning openjade sound great!

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