RE: SGML, DTDs, EDDs, and FOSIs

["Peter Ring" <pri@xxxxxx>]

That FOSI should be replaced by DSSSL is a joke now. It might have looked
like that near the end of the previous millenium, but DSSSL is about as
alive as FOSI by now -- that is, very limited new development. Almost all
recent development efforts in this area are directed to XSLT and XSL-FO.

Well, FOSI was designed to meet all needs wrt. presentation. XSL-FO will
probably also go out of vogue some day. As far as I can tell, TeX has been
the most longlived and vital formatting language ;)

Kind regards
Peter Ring


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-framers@omsys.com [mailto:owner-framers@omsys.com]On Behalf
Of eric.dunn@ca.transport.bombardier.com
Sent: 22. maj 2002 20:41
To: Nagai, Paul; Framers@FrameUsers.com; Framers@Omsys.Com
Subject: RE: SGML, DTDs, EDDs, and FOSIs




Nobody has replied yet. I think this is yet another of my questions that
will go
unanswered.

In looking for info, I did come across a reference on XML.org that stated
that
FOSI was soon to be abandoned and replaced by DSSSL. Not that I have any
more
knowledge about DSSSL than I do about FOSI, but perhaps detailed FOSI
knowledge
is not worth pursuing

Of course that changes my question into: Anybody know of any good resources
on
DSSSL and migrating FOSI to DSSSL and DSSSL to EDD transforms?

Not sure that FOSI is dead quite yet though and will take a long time to go
away. After all the US military bases it's entire documentation effort on
it.
Which explains both why ADEPT is so expensive and why FOSI information seems
so
well hidden. ;-)

But then again the little I've learned seems to suggest that FOSI is a
subset of
DSSSL.

Eric L. Dunn



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