[xep-support] HAXEP

[Mark Lybarger]

Thanks for the repsponse, I'll look forward to finding some help learning
xsl-fo conversion.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nikolai Grigoriev [mailto:grig at renderx.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 4:14 AM
> To: xep-support at renderx.com
> Subject: Re: [xep-support] HAXEP
> 
> 
> Mark,
> 
> > i'm searching for something that does HTML+CSS conversion 
> to XSL-FO.  
> > The HAXEP that i stumbled across appears to provide this 
> functionality, 
> > but i can't find it anywhere. 
> 
> HAXEP is an old project, coupled to the previous version of XEP. 
> It was never officially released.  
> 
> > is this vaporware?  
> 
> No, it is not. However, the work was completely frozen more 
> than a year ago; there is no such product at the moment.
> 
> > i've seen tools that handle inline styles, but not via a 
> stylesheet.  
> 
> Ours was a Java app, capable to apply stylesheets (using 
> a combination of Tidy and Flute). However, it was still 
> far from producing faithful representation of generic web 
> pages - mostly because of table abuses so common in today's 
> HTML code. Our experience makes us believe that generic
> HTML/CSS-to-XSLFO conversion is possible only for
> restricted input, and will always require manual tuning -
> comparable in efforts with direct XSL-FO stylesheet creation.
> 
> Regards,
> Nikolai Grigoriev
> RenderX
> 
> 
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