WordPerfect -> XML?

[Kimbro Staken]

Cocoon uses FOP to handle transformation of XSL formatting objects. I
didn't know FOP could go directly to postscript, I thought it could only
do PDF but I could certainly be wrong. 

BTW, I really doubt you want to tackle writing formatting object XSL for
daily document authoring. However, XSL-T works pretty well if you're
using something like docbook to markup your documents (XSL and XSL-T are
not the same). It's still more painful then a word processor but you
aren't locked in. We just went through converting all the dbXML
documentation from word to docbook XML and I feel so much happier now. 

OpenOffice (used to be StarOffice) can store its files in XML now,
though I don't think they have a production release of it yet. It won't
allow you to edit just any arbitrary XML format but it is better then
nothing and you can always transform the output with XSL-T. There was an
article on xml.com a couple months ago about doing this.

-- 
Kimbro Staken
The dbXML Project
http://www.dbxml.org/

Carl Parrish wrote:
> 
> I think Cocoon 2 can also do PostScripts haven't used it myself but I've
> heard it said on the mailing list.
> 
> Carl Parrish
> 
> Tom Bradford wrote:
> 
> >Trent Shipley wrote:
> >
> >>Should I migrate to XML?
> >>
> >
> >Yes
> >
> >>Is there a good XML editor (besides WP) for both
> >>Windows and *NIX?
> >>
> >
> >For Windows, XMetal from SoftQuad is good... For *NIX.... The selection
> >is pathetic.
> >
> >>What about an XML to PostScript translator?
> >>
> >
> >Apache FOP can produce PDFs which are basically just glorified
> >PostScript.
> >
> 
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