RE: [xep-support] HAXEP

From: Mark Lybarger (Mark.Lybarger@cbc-companies.com)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 04:19:51 PDT

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

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Nikolai Grigoriev [mailto:grig@renderx.com]
    > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 4:14 AM
    > To: xep-support@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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