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Posted to fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org by Simon Pepping <sp...@leverkruid.eu> on 2006/06/01 21:09:25 UTC

Re: OpenDocument as an output format

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:17:26PM -0300, Stefan Ziel wrote:
> hi folks,
> 
> creating an Output Handler for OASIS OpenDocument, as mentioned in the 
> "wish list" don?t seem to make much sense, as XSL:FO can easily be 
> converted to OpenDocument using a XSLT style sheet. without doing all 
> that rendering in between ;)

Can you really? AFAIK, an OpenDocument contains rendering information
to the extent that it can reproduce the rendering which the user has
saved. Even another OpenDocument compliant viewer can reproduce that
rendering. That would mean that you cannot create an OpenDocument
without a rendering.

Regards, Simon

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