WordPerfect -> XML?

Framemaker is also now an XML format. Looking for info about FOP's
postscript support now.

Carl Parrish

Kimbro Staken wrote:

>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.
>