Andreas L Delmelle wrote:
> On Mar 10, 2007, at 15:34, Vincent Hennebert wrote:
> 
>> Thomas Zastrow a écrit :
>>> <snip />
>>> But I haven't a directory called "gensrc"? I downloaded the SVN-version
>>> just minutes ago.
>>
>> This directory contains source files automatically generated during the
>> build process. To create it you have to run
>>     ant codegen
>> in the root directory of FOP.
> 
> FWIW, the XML sources of these generated files hardly ever change, so I
> think we may even consider replacing these with pregenerated java
> classes...?
> 
> It always seems to confuse people who are interested in contributing code.
> Then, once you start wondering why these need to be generated and cannot
> simply be added as java sources, you'll quickly realize there is no good
> reason for that. Replacing maintenance of 15 classes with maintaining 2
> stylesheets and 15 XML source files hardly seems worth the trouble... :/
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andreas

Novel idea.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-dev&m=105728457029132&w=2

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