[XML-SIG] Wanted - Heroes

[Andy Robinson]

> On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 06:25:54 +0100, Andy Robinson wrote:
> 
> >1. write a basic HTML-to-Flowables filter...
> 
> filter == a python script, or a XSLT stylesheet?
Python script.  WE don't have an XML import format yet;
input is minimal HTML, output is a list of reportlab
"Flowable" objects (mostly paragraphs).
 
> >6. Finally, the HTML to PDF filter will go in our standard
> >library, with your name on it - maybe even next week!
> 
> Do you know of any project using ReportLab to write a FO processor? (FO 
> == XSL flow objects)
> 
> >From what I see, ReportLab is very nice and would be an ideal base for 
> a pythonic FO processor, which in turn would be a nice showcase for 
> Python (the only serious stuff in FO processing is either Java or C++). 
No, not yet.  We're only just finishing documenting our 
paragraph API this week, so it is a bit early.  I personally
have my doubts about when FO will stabilise and how practical
an object model it is, and a proper implementation imvolves
modelling rectangles down to the character level which is not
Python's forte. 

> 
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Sorry too - I got so busy last week I ignored the XML-sig and 
only just saw this.

- Andy Robinson