Thankyou Dave.
XSL-FO and e-book <quirk>Standard</quirk> appear to have
no connection.
Jon Noring set out some time back to create an ebook standard,
and as you say, its now a nightmare of nih variants and
proprietary versions. Pity. Even Microsoft seem unable to
provide a defacto standard.
regards DaveP.
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From: Dave Cramer
I do quite a bit of eBook production, using XSL to
transform XML files extracted from Quark documents into OEB
format (HTML with extras, as Wendell says), and also into
one of the Palm formats (XSL output is a text file). The
OEB files can be converted into .LIT files for Microsoft
Reader for PC using proprietary software from Overdrive.
The Palm text files are converted into the final Palm ebook
format with another proprietary program from Palm Digital
Media (or whatever company bought it last).
Since we have Quark files, we create eBook PDFs directly
from those without going through XML and XSL-FO.
Some people are trying to create an open-source eBook
reader (www.openreader.org), based on OEB standards, to
avoid the current nightmare of dozens of incompatible eBook
formats and readers.
Dave Cramer
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