The Apache XML project have started the new
year with style by
releasing an
updated version of FOP, their XSL-FO processor.
The 0.16 release contains several significant additions including
column support, hyphenation and the ability to compress PDFs.
The announcement
message also outlines the short term goals for the FOP developers:
...work continues on filling in the gaps between the XSL
Candidate Recommendation and FOP. We anticipate a production release which has
at least Basic conformance in all areas by early-mid spring of this year.
FOP is moving to TRAX for interfacing with XSLT processors, has active
cooperation with Batik SVG..., and has a number of initiatives underway to
field new fo:instream-foreign-object content processors and back-end renderers.
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