Keiron Liddle wrote: ... > To serialize between the Area Tree and the Renderers there are some > serious problems that would get in the way: > - in many cases the area tree will need to be complete before sending > anything across, this defeats the whole purpose and will use a lot of > memory > - embedded xml will need to be parsed twice and saxified > - how do we handle area tree extensions > - forward references for some renderers will mean that the renderer > may also need to store the whole area tree (or part thereof) on the > other side of the sax events > - the layout depends on the output target, for font information > Keiron,
Could you sketch out the way font information is communicated to layout? I had the vague notion that the renderers were obliged to provide font information at the configuration stage. I hoped this would obviate any further communication between the layout process and the renderer. Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
