At 04:16 AM 1/28/2005, it was written:
allows rendering a input xml document to be rendered in
multiple output media like print, browser, eBook etc.,
My apologies here. What I meant by eBook was formatting an XML document
into an eBook suitable for rendering on a palmtop or a eBookReader. Again,
this may not exist as of now but should be possible using XSL-FO.
If your eBook uses the Open eBook format, which is XML-based (it's
HTMLish with provisions for uniform metadata and so forth), it might
be considerably easier to go straight into it via XSLT than to use
XSL-FO for this.
An XSL-FO browser could make a nice platform for reading e-text, but
that's not where the eBook specifications seem to have gone --
http://www.openebook.org/oebps/oebps1.2/download/oeb12-xhtml.htm
(Of course that document is dated 2002: I don't know what's been
happening more recently in this area or where vendors are going.)
Regards,
Wendell
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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