And between me and Christian I think we will see to it that this change, at least, gets done and is reflected in a maintenance release, which I suggest should appear NLT Dec 15.
In other words, I accept your argument (that was never in question). It's a resource thing...Keiron and Karen (and some others, such as Peter West) are looking at the rewrite, so it's up to the rest of us to do stuff like this. AHS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 12:47 PM Subject: Re: FOP conformance > At 1:19 PM -0400 11/30/01, Arved Sandstrom wrote: > > > >As regards the topic in general, I support Keiron 100%. The entire point of > >the rewrite is that during the process things are in limbo...this was well > >understood before, or so I thought. > > It was understood. However, there was an implicit assumption that > XSL-FO was stable enough that FOP 0.20-2 would continue to work as > well as it ever had. When XSL 1.0 was released, that assumption > proved to be false. That's not the fault of anybody here, just life > on the bleeding edge. As other projects like DocBook start upgrading > their stylesheets to support the final XSL 1.0 recommendation, then > FOP stops working where it worked before. This means users need to > make a decision between supporting the tools that work with XSL 1.0 > and FOP. Nobody here anticipated this. > > Note that I am specifically talking about the change from the > master-name to master-reference attribute, not the various other > patches that have been submitted to 0.20-2. While useful, those > patches aren't as important. The master-name/master-reference affects > all XSL-FO documents, and means that FOP is totally non-functional. > This is not a case of not supporting this feature in these > stylesheets or that feature in those stylesheets. FOP will not > produce any output when presented with an XSL 1.0 stylesheet. It > cannot be used. > -- > > +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ > | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | > +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ > | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | > | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | > | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | > +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ > | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | > | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | > +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
