> -----Original Message----- > From: Julian Reschke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Hi Julian, > James Earl wrote: > > ... > > Well, at least now I understand why! Man, this is easy, who needs auto > > table layout!!! > > Well. If it's that easy, I don't understand why FOP can't do this on > it's own rather than requiring special workarounds... > Well, you're welcome to have a go, if you feel like it :) (--and if you do, please patch it to the development version... I'm still not completely sure about how exactly to implement it over there) Big difference is: in XSLT you're just dealing with XML nodes, so if you know XML you're set. On top of that XSLT is a widely known standard, whereas the FOP API is only known to those who take the time to go strolling through the code and browse the dev pages... If you have an XSLT question, post it to Mulberry and suddenly 10 kind people will answer your hail. If you have a question about the FOP API, you can browse fop-dev pages or post it to fop-dev, but chances are that in the end you're still going to have to gather the necessary info to be able to answer your own question. (--Certainly no negative feelings about this, as IMHO the knowledge you gather tends to be more profound if you obtain it through self-study and a few helpful hints from co-committers, rather than having someone spell it out for you from A to Z) I guess what I mean is: there's books about XML, XSLT and Java, but you won't find a book about the FOP API. Cheers, Andreas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
