Arved Sandstrom, release co-ordinator for FOP, has announced a major new release of the Apache XSL formatting objects processor.
Sandstrom writes:
We are well on the way to releasing a FOP 1.0 late this year which has full
Extended Conformance with the XSL FO spec.
The new version includes:
- pagination updated to 03/27/2000 XSL WD
- support for fo page-number-citation
- support for 06/29/2000 SVG WD + W3C Java DOM bindings
- image support using Jimi
- support for external and internal simple-links
- support for the fonts Symbol and ZapfDingbats
- support for fo:instream-foreign-object
- the AWT viewer supports, with restrictions, the SVG CR
FOP can be downloaded from the Apache XML Project web site.