Re: [xmlroff] xmlroff's "story"?

[Stefan S. <se...@sy...>]

Tony Graham wrote:

> To boil that down to as few words as possible, it looks to me like people want
> a high-quality, multi-platform formatter that excels at DocBook formatting and
> that integrates easily with other programs and with scripting languages.
> 
> So how about that as the "story"?
> 
>    xmlroff is a high-quality, multi-platform XSL formatter that excels at
>    DocBook formatting and that integrates easily with other programs and with
>    scripting languages.

That sounds good, though there is one important word amiss: 'free' !
There are a number of fo processors out there, but none is free. The only
two contenders these days are xmlroff and fop.

I'm not sure whether integration is really that big a point. As far as
one-click behavior concerns, that's a feature for editors and other 'frontends'
that would call into xmlroff. But xmlroff itself doesn't need to care, does it ?

Regards,
		Stefan