Status of MIF Output

[Timo Haberkern <th...@emedia-office.de>]

Hello,

can anybody tell me the status of the MIF output renderer. I read in the 
documentation that it is not fully implemented, but whats implemented 
and what is not? Does anybody use it in a productive way?

best regards

Timo Haberkern


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RE: Status of MIF Output

[Markus Schutz <ma...@datadax.de>]

I'm not quite sure whether the situation has changed so much since Frame
7.0.
The old EDD concept is still in place, and everyone who has ever attempted
to map an XML structure to a FrameMaker template knows how tedious a job
this is.
Even if you want to customise the default DocBook application to meet your
own demands you'll get not that far within a reasonable amount of time!

Thus, MIF output would be a nice thing to have, but I'm afraid I'm not the
one to do that, at least not now (I agree with you, there are more urgent
issues).

Markus Schutz

-----Original Message-----
From: Victor Mote [mailto:vic@outfitr.com]
Sent: Freitag, 1. August 2003 17:06
To: fop-user@xml.apache.org
Subject: RE: Status of MIF Output


Timo Haberkern wrote:

> can anybody tell me the status of the MIF output renderer. I read in the
> documentation that it is not fully implemented, but whats implemented
> and what is not? Does anybody use it in a productive way?

Almost nothing is implemented. It creates the master pages and can put
fo:block elements into paragraphs, but that is about it. The infrastructure
is in place to do a lot more. However, since Frame 7.0, all Frame users have
the ability to directly manage the semantic XML document, so there is not
much interest. Unless funding is provided along the way, I think it will be
one of the last things to be addressed. Also, if a developer came along who
wanted to work on it, we could provide some assistance.

Victor Mote


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RE: Status of MIF Output

[Victor Mote <vi...@outfitr.com>]

Timo Haberkern wrote:

> can anybody tell me the status of the MIF output renderer. I read in the
> documentation that it is not fully implemented, but whats implemented
> and what is not? Does anybody use it in a productive way?

Almost nothing is implemented. It creates the master pages and can put
fo:block elements into paragraphs, but that is about it. The infrastructure
is in place to do a lot more. However, since Frame 7.0, all Frame users have
the ability to directly manage the semantic XML document, so there is not
much interest. Unless funding is provided along the way, I think it will be
one of the last things to be addressed. Also, if a developer came along who
wanted to work on it, we could provide some assistance.

Victor Mote


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