Re: AW: AW: Structure renderers & area trees (Re: startup refactoring)

2003-06-23 Thread J.Pietschmann
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Speaking of which, how does the file created by '-at' differ from the file generated by running xalan.bat? That's the Area Tree XML: The layouted pages serialized to a proprietary XML format. It's only interesting for debugging purposes (in layout engine development). And

Re: AW: AW: Structure renderers & area trees (Re: startup refactoring)

2003-06-23 Thread Jeremias Maerki
On 23.06.2003 19:33:23 Clay Leeds wrote: > On 6/23/2003 10:19 AM, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > Nice idea, but there's a problem. The xsl namespace gets filtered out by > > the XSLT engine, or IOW expanded to the FO attributes before they reach > > FOP. FOP never sees anything with the xsl: prefix. >

Re: AW: AW: Structure renderers & area trees (Re: startup refactoring)

2003-06-23 Thread Clay Leeds
On 6/23/2003 10:19 AM, Jeremias Maerki wrote: Nice idea, but there's a problem. The xsl namespace gets filtered out by the XSLT engine, or IOW expanded to the FO attributes before they reach FOP. FOP never sees anything with the xsl: prefix. Does this mean that just about every fo:block in the inte

Re: AW: AW: Structure renderers & area trees (Re: startup refactoring)

2003-06-23 Thread Jeremias Maerki
Nice idea, but there's a problem. The xsl namespace gets filtered out by the XSLT engine, or IOW expanded to the FO attributes before they reach FOP. FOP never sees anything with the xsl: prefix. On 23.06.2003 18:51:45 Clay Leeds wrote: > Forgive my intrusion, and perhaps this is not related, or j

Re: AW: AW: Structure renderers & area trees (Re: startup refactoring)

2003-06-23 Thread Clay Leeds
On 6/23/2003 3:08 AM, J.U. Anderegg wrote: Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: How do you plan to handle RTF styles? In jfor we defined an extension to XSL-FO (the "jfor-style" attribute) to control RTF styles. I think some form of extension is needed as (AFAIK) the concept of styles does not exist in XSL-F

Re: AW: AW: Structure renderers & area trees (Re: startup refactoring)

2003-06-23 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le Lundi, 23 juin 2003, à 12:08 Europe/Zurich, J.U. Anderegg a écrit : Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: ...In jfor we defined an extension to XSL-FO (the "jfor-style" attribute) to control RTF styles (1) This is not a FOP extension, but rather a fundamental change of the XSL-FO language, which does

AW: AW: Structure renderers & area trees (Re: startup refactoring)

2003-06-23 Thread J.U. Anderegg
> Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > ... > > How do you plan to handle RTF styles? > > In jfor we defined an extension to XSL-FO (the "jfor-style" attribute) > to control RTF styles. > > I think some form of extension is needed as (AFAIK) the concept of > styles does not exist in XSL-FO, as it is meant f

Re: AW: Structure renderers & area trees (Re: startup refactoring)

2003-06-23 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le Lundi, 23 juin 2003, à 10:35 Europe/Zurich, J.U. Anderegg a écrit : ... How do you plan to handle RTF styles? In jfor we defined an extension to XSL-FO (the "jfor-style" attribute) to control RTF styles. Another way would be to recognize sets of attribute values in the input XSL-FO and map th

AW: Structure renderers & area trees (Re: startup refactoring)

2003-06-23 Thread J.U. Anderegg
> Bertrand Delacretaz wrote > The whole point of the StructureHandler interface is to be able to > reuse FOP's "frontend" for structure-based renderers. > The impact of StructureHandler on the "standard" FOP output formats > (PDF mostly) is minor, but it allows the FOP "pipeline" to branch > cle