DOCBOOK-APPS: box and fop, newbies

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as a newbies with db xml, which environment would you recoment ?
currently, im using fop0.20.3 + xalan, but i read in the list there may be
some issues (?). same for fop and table..

is it better to switch to saxon ?
xep rather than fop ?

what would u recomend as state of the art as of today (win2k mainly)

i neen to render printed docs, and possibly rtf too. has anyone experimented
the limits of jfor ?

currently, i got the following problem to put a border around revhistory
:(repost, sorry for missing the title):





i try to have my revhistory boxed in a able with border, and i cannot.

i have patched block.xsl, L.235 as follow :

<xsl:template match="revhistory">
  <fo:table border-width="0.5mm" border-style="solid">

i m using fop.20.3, docbook xsl 1.50 (non exp) and have tested positively
table.001.xml

here is my driver:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";;
  xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";;
                version="1.0">

<xsl:import href="../../docbook-xsl-1.50.0/template/luctitle.xsl"/>

<!-- CSS Stylesheet -->
<xsl:param name="paper.type" select="'A4'"/>
<xsl:param name="draft.watermark.image" select="'0'"/>

<xsl:param name="page.margin.top">0.5in</xsl:param>

<xsl:param name="tablecolumns.extension" select="'1'"/>
<xsl:param name="fop.extensions" select="'1'"/>


any ideas ?
thanks
Luc