Yeah, the default value of span is "none" ( http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/slice7.html#span).
So, by setting span="inherit" on a child object, you are effectively setting its span attribute to "none" as well. I think the FOP developers just designed FOP to output a warning whenever an "inherit" value is encountered that isn't inheriting an explicitly set property, even though it is still inheriting the default value as it should. Such a warning could be useful for debugging stylesheets. Colin On 4/26/07, T.G. Mutato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think your right Colin that it's nothing to worry about -- it's just an annoyance. Interestingly, I manually removed the span="inherit" from the fo file (it surrounds the Index title) -- the warning from FOP went away and the PDF file looked ok too. tgm On 4/25/07, Colin Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure that this is really anything to worry about. I just checked > the XSL spec out of curiosity, and it doesn't seem to say anything that > indicates it is improper to use the "inherit" keyword on the property of an > FO object when its parent doesn't have the same property explicitly set. > > 5.9.10.1 inherit > The property takes the same computed value as the property for the > formatting object's parent object. > > That's all it really says. Therefore, I assume that this is just a warning > that FOP generates, not necessarily indicating that the FO produced by the > DocBook XSL stylesheet is illegal. > > If anyone believes otherwise, please correct me. > > Colin > > > On 4/25/07, T.G. Mutato <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > I've been using DocBook 4.5, XSL 1.72.0 and FOP 0.93 on Windows and > > noticed that whenever I run FOP on my DocBook source, I get the > > following: > > > > WARNING: span="inherit" on fo:block, but no explicit value found on > > the parent FO. > > > > Here's a simple example that demonstrates the warning: > > > > <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN" > > "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd";> > > <book> > > <bookinfo> > > <title>My First Book</title> > > > <author><firstname>Jane</firstname><surname>Doe</surname></author> > > <copyright><year>1998</year><holder>Jane > Doe</holder></copyright> > > </bookinfo> > > <chapter id="chapterone"> > > <title id="atitleid"> > > <indexterm> > > <primary>a nice index entry</primary> > > </indexterm> > > Here's our Chapter Title > > </title> > > <sect1 id="sectionone"> > > <title> > > <indexterm> > > <primary>anothter nice index entry</primary> > > </indexterm> > > Here's our Section Title > > </title> > > <para> > > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. In > > tortor nibh, facilisis ac, consectetuer eget, malesuada > > molestie, augue. Etiam non nibh eget elit tincidunt commodo. > > </para> > > </sect1> > > </chapter> > > <index id="index"/> > > </book> > > > > Run the two commands: > > xsltproc --output testbook.fo pdfdoc.xsl testbook.xml > > fop.bat -fo testbook.fo -pdf testbook.pdf > > > > and you see the Warning output. > > > > The warning doesn't seem to be serious and I am not sure if it is an > > issue with the FO stylesheets or with FOP. Is there a good way to turn > > off the warning? > > > > Thanks, > > tgm > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
