| Weekend reading: XSL-FO, ebXML and UDDI
Paul Sandoz has written an article about using XSL-FO and FOP on Sun's web site.
It covers the use of XSL formatting objects with Sun's Slides DTD, enabling a way to create printed output. From the abstract:
The FO stylesheet may be used in conjunction with
the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) stylesheet such
that presentations are displayed using SVG and
printed using FO. They complement each other
because SVG is visually more detailed, for example
background styles, where as FO is less so, which
makes it suitable for printing. Both stylesheets
follow similar transformation logic.
XML.org is running an article entitled "Understanding ebXML, UDDI and XML/edi." The article contrasts and explains the three e-business initiatives. Commenting on why UDDI was launched at all, seeing as it overlaps with parts of ebXML, the author writes:
So why was
the UDDI initiative work launched at all? Mostly internal time-to-market pressures on the
three principles [sic], who simply decided they could not wait for ebXML to complete its work, but
instead choose to rush to market with a proprietary solution, and then use this work to drive
the direction of the ebXML and W3C standards work at a later point.
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