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Hi Riley...

Do keep in mind that there's no way to duplicate the quality of PDF you get from FM with XSL-FO. It simply doesn't support the same level of formatting and layout control that you get with FM. For fairly simple documents, you can get reasonably nice looking PDFs with FO, but if you've got very high quality standards or complex documents, you'll be at a loss with FO.

Although a completely open-source workflow is a nice goal, I feel like the most important part to keep open is the content format. If your content is in DITA, then you're free to use whatever editor and publishing tool that provides the features you need (and to change those tools when something else looks better). If one or both of those are open source .. so much the better.

One of my goals for DITA-FMx is to set it up so the map to book process can be driven programmatically so it can be used in an automated workflow .. I'm hoping that this will be largely functional in the upcoming update.

BTW .. don't forget about the SVDIG meetings in Sunnyvale. You could chat with other DITA users to learn how they are handling these issues.

 <http://svdig.ditamap.com/>

Cheers!

...scott