Hi,
Thanks to Michael Hahn, E R Harold and Mike Smith for your valuable
perspectives on FOP.
Mike Smith writes:
I would guess that Renderx might be willing to provide you with
free classroom licenses for XEP, and your students could get free
academic licenses or "personal edition" licenses for their home
use. (Does it really matter for your teaching purposes or for your
students that it be open source?)
Well, yes and no. We are not ruling out commercial applications, if
that's your question (but they're not what I was asking about at the
moment :-).
I suppose xmlroff probably doesn't meet the available-for-Windows
requirement, but it seems like it'd be wortwhile to at least demo
it for you students and give some background information about it
so that they know it exists. (If you have any students who are
developers, maybe some would take enough interest in xmlroff to
consider contributing to development on it.)
We like xmlroff; indeed its author is an old friend and
once-and-future associate of ours. It's on the list of
implementations we discuss in the course.
If they're doing hands-on XSL-FO work exclusively with FOP, it
seems like in spite of what else you may be demo'ing for them,
they're going to walk away with out ever trying and seeing for
themselves that they can generate production-quality output from
an XSL-FO toolchain.
Yet somehow our students have never really come away with that
impression. This may have to do with the nature of our classes and
with who takes our courses and why: we are not a "training shop"
primarily and we don't get students who are still shopping for
technology. That is, most of our students already know why they want
XML/XSL when they arrive, and what it is capable of.
At the very least it might be worthwhile to suggest that they
download XEP on their own at home and try it.
We do. We discuss the trial version offerings of several processors.
Thanks again,
Wendell
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