> -----Original Message----- > From: Andreas L. Delmelle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Picked this one up @ mulberry: > > "In RenderX XEP, an XSL FO formatter, the preprocessor is written in XSLT; > it is a complex stylesheet of moderate size, and it does what is best to > do in XML manipulation language." > > Does anybody here have an idea of what exactly is meant by this? > Is it an option that has once been considered for/is applicable to FOP? >
Sorry if I keep nagging 'bout this, but I'm guessing it has something to do with streamlining the FO before the actual processing... Hmm. I definitely see *some* possibility in key'ing certain types of nodes and their (un)resolved attributes --and it does offer the advantage that you can transform certain subtrees to offer an input that would be swifter and less memory-intensive to handle, to control the object instantiation rate in some way (? if the spec is too verbose or too obscure to map into a decent, manageable OO-structure, maybe this sort of 'preprocessing' could be of help) In a way, I see a link to alt-design's pull-parsing --only this part could be handled by Xalan or a pluggable XSLT processor of the users' own choice... Cheers, Andreas
