Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
But OTOH it is written in XSLT so the tricks it uses to deal with whitespace are of interest, if you can understand the code (I barely can).Dominique:
Bother. db2latex doesn't really help me that much, since I'm not doing docbook.
Aren't we misunderstanding each other there? My previous post talked about two *different* DocBook -> LaTeX stylesheets:
http://www.idealx.org/DocBkXML2LaTeX/ -> written in Perl -> my stuff
http://db2latex.sourceforge.net/ -> written in XSLT -> works too, I tested it
The latter somehow manages to do whitespace correctly so it has to be possible using XSLT too :-).
In my previous email I was highlighting some incomplete findings I made in db2latex's source while trying to answer your XSLT questions, so that you can dig further. I mentioned Perl only as a self-serving plug, apologies for disturbing the mindflow with that.
I just can't stand Perl.I'm not surprised :-) Although one can do clean, functional-style programming in Perl too (I did, for my stylesheet), it simply is too easy to cut corners with it to manage the kind of software quality requirements we have all come to expect from you.
From your description, though, it sounds like you used some pre-existingmodule to normalize whitespace?
Uh, no. See above.
Regards,
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Dominique Quatravaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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