On 02/19/2016 11:25 AM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote:
Thanks to the example you proved, and a bit of digging around on the Web
for extra information, I have managed to define a single-page cover
sheet to be included in the .pdf output from a .ditamap
I ran into problems, though, trying to make a multi-page cover sheet –
our standard .pdf layout has a product photo on the front, then a
standard disclaimer/document history on the back*
I'm sorry but our products just support a single page cover sheet. I'm
afraid we cannot help you.
I’m not asking you to solve the entire problem :-} but I read in
Wikipedia /XSL-FO was discontinued: the last update for the Working
Draft was in January 2012, and its Working Group closed in November 2013/
It's the XSL-FO 2.0 W3C Working Group which has been discontinued, which
implies that XSL-FO 2.0 will not exist.
This is not a problem. XSL-FO 1.1 is already very useful and very
powerful. (And to my knowledge, fully implemented only by a single
vendor: Antenna House.)
What do you think is going to emerge as a replacement?
There is nothing wrong with XSL-FO, that's why I don't think there is no
need for a replacement.
Note that XSL-FO 1.0 and 1.1 are W3C Recommendations, that is, de jure
standards.
To my knowledge, the W3C does not withdraw nor discontinues its
recommendations. See https://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/. No "obsolete" or
"discontinued" warnings on these pages.
A standard such as XSL-FO will continue to live as long as there are
useful tools which support it actively. Some of these useful tools are:
* Apache™ FOP
https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/
(Version 2.1 released just a few weeks ago!)
* RenderX XEP
http://www.renderx.com/tools/xep.html
* Antenna House Formatter
https://www.antennahouse.com/antenna1/formatter/
* XMLmind XSL-FO Converter
http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/
Niels Grundtvig Nielsen
technical author T&P
/you know what you’re talking about – I can help you say it/
* I’d prefer not to introduce the complexities of a .bookmap just for
three paragraphs of standard front matter :-}
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