Re: FOEventHandler method call sequence

[Jeremias Maerki]

On 19.06.2008 14:49:35 Andreas Delmelle wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2008, at 14:07, Jeremias Maerki wrote:
> 
> > On 19.06.2008 10:46:59 Andreas Delmelle wrote:
> >>
> > Thanks for looking into it. Yes, your proposal would solve the problem
> > with the sequence. But FOEventHandler.characters() is still called
> > before white space handling. That would also need to be delayed. I  
> > guess
> > I'll have to open a Bugzilla issue and add the test case I've
> > constructed. I don't have enough time to dive any deeper right  
> > now. :-(
> 
> I see what you mean. In the same sense, there is a gotcha concerning  
> fo:character. startCharacter() could be called, while further on, the  
> corresponding Character node is removed from the tree... The  
> intention was definitely that a FOEventHandler implementation would  
> not need to worry about white-space handling, except around formatter- 
> generated breaks.
> 
> I'll see if I can tackle it. I'm currently working on changing FOText  
> to use a java.nio.CharBuffer, and already stumbled upon issues with  
> white-space handling, so I may need to revisit that anyway.

That'd be aweseome!!! I got a bit scared by the thought of having to
dive into whitespace handling there. ;-)

> Cheers
> 
> Andreas




Jeremias Maerki