Article:		Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL
Subject:		Not enough tools
Date:		2005-01-20 23:38:35
From:		PeterRing
Response to: Not enough tools
Some more tools: http://www.re.be/css2xslfo/ "CSSToXSLFO is a utility which can convert an XML document, together with a CSS2 style sheet, into an XSLFO document, which can then be converted into PDF, PostScript, etc. with an XSLFO-processor. It has special support for the XHTML vocabulary, because that is the most obvious language it would be used for. The tool has a number of page-related extensions. It also comes with an API in the form of an XML filter." http://www.turnkey.com.au/tksweb/products/topleaf.html http://www.turnkey.com.au/tksweb/papers/gjnop2003.pdf "A great deal of work has gone into creating such standards as CSS, XSLT and XSL-FO, which allow human readable XML documents to be rendered on-screen, as hard copy or PDF. CSS is easy to work with using GUIs even non-experts can produce quite complex stylesheets but lacks key facilities for producing publishable quality pagination. XSLT/FO has virtually unlimited potential for the manipulation and display of source material. However the design of the required formatting objects, not to mention the XSLT transforms which create those objects, is well beyond the capabilities of non-specialists. The latest version of Turn-Key's TopLeaf rendering system is an attempt to provide the facilities of professional quality typesetting, but using a simple intuitive interface."

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