FOP stands for '''F'''ormatting '''O'''bjects '''P'''rocessor. This is the name of [Apache]'s [http://xml.apache.org/] [xsl-fo] processor for [XML]. It basically allows conversion of [XML] documents into binary formats, for instance [PDF]. Currently only a [Java] version is available, which could be used with [TclBlend] or [Jacl], or directly [exec]'d from Tcl.

I ([NEM]) sometime dream about writing an [xsl-fo] processor for [tdom], but it would be a huge project (read the xsl-fo specs from the w3c for an idea of the complexity involved).

[SRB] Perhaps a more realistic/achievable project is to write as Tcl wrapper for xmlroff [http://xmlroff.sf.net/].  xmlroff is a FO processor written in C, based on libxml2.

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