Saxon?

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Fri Jun 17 08:41:35 UTC 2005


On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 05:05:43PM -0500, Tommy Reynolds wrote:

> Uttered Tim Waugh <twaugh at redhat.com>, spake thus:
> 
> > Maybe we should be looking at xmlroff, which doesn't have a dependency
> > on *yet another* XML parser
> 
> Xmlroff just doesn't work at all yet.  Try converting the IG, for instance.
> 
> At least these saxon/fop partially function.

It's unfair to say it doesn't work at all, but it certainly isn't
something that will work for everything right now, that's true.

But I do really question the benefit of switching xmlto to using
Saxon.  We should be concentrating effort on the XSL-FO -> PDF step,
not the XML -> XSL-FO step which already works perfectly well.

Tim.
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