Arved, I would appreciate that. One of the reasons to turn to (at this moment evaluation-version of) XEP is that XEP works fine with marker-retrieve marker.
Regards, Etwin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arved Sandstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 12:41 AM Subject: RE: markers > Hi, Bart > > I took markers up to a certain point last summer. I didn't have the property > re-parenting happening yet, but in terms of retrieving the right marker > probably about half the retrieve-position/retrieve-boundary combos were > already functional. The example file glossary.xml stems from that period. > > We had an injection of code just about that time that was generally held to > be higher priority, including by me, and this broke the partial marker > support. I don't think anything has happened since, and so you are probably > seeing the effects of this, not doing anything wrong in your FO. > > I am loathe to invest any effort in marker support in the maintenance > branch, unless Karen and/or Keiron were to indicate that they do not expect > functional markers in the rewrite for at least another 3 months (by which I > mean I'd be happy to actually write that code if they indicate that I could > reasonably expect to be doing so within 3 months). If it looks like there > won't be any markers in the rewrite for quite a while then I'd be happy to > look at getting them back into the maintenance branch because it wouldn't be > wasted effort. > > Regards, > Arved Sandstrom > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bart Locanthi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: February 26, 2002 7:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: markers > > > does fop support markers? i'm having trouble getting them to work. > > my input looks like > ... > <fo:flow> > <fo:block> > <fo:block> > <fo:marker marker-class-name="chap">chapter one</fo:marker> > ... > </fo:block> > </fo:block> > <fo:block> > <fo:block> > <fo:marker marker-class-name="chap">chapter two</fo:marker> > ... > > note that the markers share a common great-grandparent. > > the error message i get from any fop-0.20.[23] is: > > [ERROR]: fo:marker must be an initial child,and 'marker-class-name' must > be unique for same parent. > > i'm following all the rules, i think, but no joy. > > sounds like a simple misconception on my part but i'm stumped. >
