Re: namespace-prefixes

2004-03-05 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
der away! In other words. SAXParserFactory.setFeature() invokes XMLReader.setFeature()! The SAXParserFactory doesn't even know what features it can support until the XMLReader tells it! Talk about a hack. Check it out for yourself: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-crimson/src/org/apache/crimson/jaxp/ --

Re: namespace-prefixes

2004-03-05 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
nt that promulgated these mistaken ideas that I just haven't read. You know, now that I think about it that way I have a funny feeling I may know which book that was, but I'll have to wait till I get to my office on Tuesday to check. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: namespace-prefixes

2004-03-05 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
At 9:07 PM -0800 3/4/04, Clay Leeds wrote: On Mar 4, 2004, at 6:53 PM, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: At 10:43 AM +1000 3/5/04, Peter B. West wrote: I think this might be because the HEAD developers were moving to a JAXP implementation, and SAXParserFactory is still in the 1.4 javax.xml.parsers

Re: namespace-prefixes

2004-03-04 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
ng to accept a process they didn't control. Four years later the rest of us are still paying the price for their hubris. :-( -- Elliotte Rusty Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/I

Re: namespace-prefixes

2004-03-04 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
At 2:36 PM -0800 3/4/04, Glen Mazza wrote: --- Elliotte Rusty Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What I ask on reading this code is why you're using SAXParserFactory at all? SAXParserFactory is a Sun class they invented to fill a hole in SAX 1.0. It's unnecessary in SAX 2.0. S

Re: namespace-prefixes

2004-03-04 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
's off the top of my head so it may not compile, and there are ways to look for alternative parsers if you don't find one immediately (See http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava/chapters/ch07.html#d0e9994 ) but you get the idea. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold [EMAIL PROTECT

XSL-FO, Chapter 18 of the XML Bible, has been updated

2002-07-03 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
ion 0.20.4, and fixed a few minor errors where I noticed them. -- +---++---+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | +---++---+ | XML in a Nut

Build problems Could not read filters from file:

2002-05-28 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
. Any suggestions? -- +---++---+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | +---++---+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (IDG Books,

Re: pdf bean

2002-03-25 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
o this, or try Google -- +---++-------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | +---++---+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Editio

Re: 0.20.3rc bug

2002-01-30 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
s the final syntax, not the earlier draft syntax. YOu need to change a master-name attribute to a master-reference attribute on the fo:page-sequence. -- +---+--------+---+ | Elliott

Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] FOP 0.20.3 Release Candidate available

2002-01-22 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
ally plan to make this a release at some point? 0.20.2 never got beyond release candidate. -- +---+----+-------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | +---++--

Re: FOP conformance

2001-11-30 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
s not a case of not supporting this feature in these stylesheets or that feature in those stylesheets. FOP will not produce any output when presented with an XSL 1.0 stylesheet. It cannot be used. -- +---++---+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL

Re: FOP conformance

2001-11-30 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
----+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | +---++---+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http:/

Re: linefeed-treatment

2001-08-08 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
thing wrong. If it's not linefeed-treatment, then almost certainly something else is wrong. -- +---++-------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XSL-FO Engine comparisons

2001-08-03 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
At 10:28 PM +0100 7/31/01, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: >Elliotte Rusty Harold writes: > > The downside to this otherwise excellent engine is that it's Windows > > only and based on Windows graphics primitives rather than PostScript or > > PDF. It displays on the screen very

Re: XSL-FO Engine comparisons

2001-08-01 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
ll in implementation, not in the language. A new version of XSLFO wouldn't really help me any. -- +---+----+---+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | +---++-

XSL-FO Engine comparisons

2001-07-31 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
ver, since I need PDF files I can send to my editors and download to a typesetter, my choice for the time being is PassiveTeX. -- +---++---+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | +---++---+

Re: Can't build fop: Hangs after "Starting Ant..."

2001-07-19 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
d to do more testing against all the other projects since they all keep breaking each other. -- +---++---+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | +---++---+

0.19 Docs

2001-06-18 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
The Web site and the docs in the zip file both still refer to 0.18 and have the old limitations and features. Any chance of getting this updated? -- +---++---+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer

Re: SVG -> PDF Transcoder (Beta 1) Released

2001-06-18 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
es in FO documents. > You wouldn't happen to have a URL for that would you? It's not in the dist directory. -- +---+----+-------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL