Bug#604008: package Description: doesn't mention neither XSL-FO, nor RTF, etc.

[Ivan Shmakov]

Package: fop
Version: 1:1.0.dfsg-3
Severity: wishlist

	It's common to abbreviate “XSL Formatting Objects” as XSL-FO:
	both English Wikipedia uses this term (say, [1]), and the XSL
	1.1 specification [2] makes a reference to it.

	Yet, while FOP may consume XSL-FO, and produce a wide variety of
	presentations, the straightforward ‘$ apt-cache search xsl-fo ’
	search results in no mention of the package (neither the search
	for, say, “rtf” results in one.)  Indeed, the description reads:

Description: XML to PDF Translator
 FOP is a print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects.
 It is a Java 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 xalan) or can be passed in memory as a DOM
 Document or (in the case of xalan) SAX events.

	Therefore, I suggest the description to be changed as follows:

Description: FOP is an XML formatter driven by XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO.)
 FOP is a Java application that reads a formatting object tree and then
 turns it into a wide variety of output presentations (including AFP,
 PCL, PDF, PNG, PostScript, RTF, TIFF, and plain text), or displays
 the result on-screen.
 .
 The formatting object tree can be in the form of an XML document
 (output by an XSLT engine like xalan) or can be passed in memory as a
 DOM Document or (in the case of xalan) SAX events.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/

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