----- Original Message -----
From: "Berin Loritsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Avalon Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: docbook, fo and cocoon2
> Vincent Massol wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Berin,
> >
> > I had come to that conclusion after reading a bit more on the fop web
site.
> > I have modified the stylesheet to automatically include fo:block. I
still
> > have a problem with specifying column width using 'number*' format (it
works
> > with '200pt', i.e. fixed size). It seems the stylesheet does not work
for
> > proprtional values.
>
> The stylesheet is supposed to be able to convert from DocBook's notion of
> widths to FO. In fact, the conversion XSL came from the XSL:FO spec. Use
> the '*' notation for proportional widths. I.e. for one column to be 1/3
> the width and the other column to be 2/3 the total width, you would use
this:
>
> <column width="*"/>
> <column width="2*"/>
>
> The stylesheet will take care of the rest.
>
yes, I agree but what I was saying is that it doesn't seem to work ... some
recursive error happens ... Have you tried it ?
> >
> > Also, do you know if fop supports <simple-link> (what <ulink> is
transformed
> > into). Fop gives the following error :
> >
> > [java] ERROR 10047 [fop ] (): Unknown formatting object
> > http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format^simple-link
> >
??
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Do you know how to debug cocoon2 (see the text in my first post) ?
??
thanks
-Vincent
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -Vincent
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Berin Loritsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Avalon Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 1:44 PM
> > Subject: Re: docbook, fo and cocoon2
> >
> > > Vincent Massol wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have copied your settings and stylesheets that you use in Avalon
to
> > > > generate the documentation (especially the PDF part). Thanks very
much
> > for
> > > > that ! I have it working except for generating tables in PDF.
> > Unfortunately,
> > > > there are no tables in the "developing with avalon" XML source so I
> > cannot
> > > > copy a working example ... :)
> > > >
> > > > The generating in HTML works fine (i.e. docbook2body.xsl). However
the
> > > > generation to PDF does not print anything (docbook2fo.xsl) ... Have
you
> > had
> > > > any success with this ?
> > > >
> > > > Also, is there a cocoon flag to turn on so that I can see the
> > intermediate
> > > > generated files (like the xml file resulting from the docbook2fo.xsl
> > > > transformation) ? I know this is a cocoon question but you may have
used
> > it
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > > Here is my table definition :
> > > >
> > > > <table>
> > > > <tgroup cols="2">
> > > > <colspec colname="c1"/>
> > > > <colspec colname="c2"/>
> > > > <tbody>
> > > > <row>
> > > > <entry>xxx</entry>
> > > > <entry>xxx</entry>
> > > > </row>
> > > > </tbody>
> > > > </tgroup>
> > > > </ltable>
> > >
> > > FOP has some limitations that force some markup constraints in
> > > the table. One of them is that you have to specify width in
> > > the colspec. The other is that all your information must be
> > > in an enclosing <fo:block/> element. Therefore, inside your
> > > markup you may want to do something like this:
> > >
> > > <row>
> > > <entry><para>xxx</para></entry>
> > > <entry><para>xxx</para></entry>
> > > </row>
> > >
> > > I may have to change the stylesheet to automatically insert the
> > > blocks for me.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any help
> > > > -Vincent
> > > >
> > > > Note: At some point we will need to create a jakarta project that
would
> > > > contain all the docbook stylesheets for the Jakarta style ...
> > > >
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