Argh, OK, that "dozen" was not fair, but it is still frustrating how many promising projects get abandoned while so much effort is endlessly duplicated.

If we had funding, my tiny company would retain you or someone else willing and knowledgeable to move Apache XML-FOP from version 0.20.5 it has been stuck at for the last two years. Of course, it has been merged with another Apache project, then completely redesigned... They do promise 1.0 before the end of the year.