ITP: FOP, FESI
If there is no objections, I'd like to package FOP and FESI.
As stated in their control files:
Package: lib-fop-java
Architecture: all
Depends: java-common, lib-xt-java
Description: A [XSL] Formatting Object to PDF Translator
FOP is a print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects.
It is a Java 1.1 application that reads a formatting object
tree and then turns it into a PDF document. The formatting
object tree can be in the form of an XML document (output by
an XSLT engine like XT) or can be passed in memory as a DOM
Document or (in the case of XT) SAX events.
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Note that FOP is still alpha. It is slow, buggy and doesn't
support much of the XSL spec. It's getting there, though.
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For more information, take a look at the FOP web site
at http://www.jtauber.com/fop/
Package: lib-fesi-java
Architecture: all
Suggests: lib-fesi-java-doc
Depends: java-common
Description: A full implementation of the EcmaScript language in Java
FESI (pronounced like fuzzy) is a full implementation of the
EcmaScript language (defined in the standard ECMA 262 available
at http://www.ecma.ch (edition of june 97). EcmaScript is largely
equivalent to the JavaScript language version 1.1 or to the core
part of JScript, but without the navigator specific extensions.
A few extensions can be loaded, to provide basic input/output,
file input/output, access to Java objects, database access and
regular expression based search from an EcmaScript program,
including dynamic loading of classes and beans.
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FESI consists of a set of java packages, allowing to use EcmaScript
as a macro language for Java applications, and of an interactive
interpreter (usable from the command line to test EcmaScript programs).
The integration with Java is very strong, making FESI a useful tool
to test Java libraries.
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For more information, take a look at the FESI web site at
http://home.worldcom.ch/jmlugrin/fesi
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