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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Question on two Docbook/CSS-related tools
Edward Bishop wrote:
> Their formatter converts XML + CSS to PDF or Postscript, and has
> style sheets for XHTML and Docbook. In their release notes, they
> also claim support for CSS3 Paged Media extensions like "PageBox"
> which has formatting capabilities comparable to XSL-FO.
I don't believe that CSS could be used as a full-fledge formatting
language for print output. In CSS there is missing transformation and
query engine that is available to both XSL and DSSSL. How you can
generate ToC? How you can generate index? How you can generate text of
crossreference?
IMHO CSS is suitable for easy previewing of document or for styling it
in WYSIWYG XML editors. But serious print output can't be done in CSS.
May be Prince provides some extensions to get ToC. But the question is
how flexible can be such solution.
Jirka
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