RE: Setup code in Driver

2003-12-20 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Victor Mote [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, if possible, please let me know what you decide. I am evaluating in-progress projects right now to determine which ones I should finish and which ones I should abandon as I exit the project. You've mentioned before, I believe, there was some

[VOTE] Finn Bock for Committer

2003-12-21 Thread Glen Mazza
Team, I've been working with Finn's several patches on moving FOP from string to integer constants. The quality of his work is all very solid--his coding knowledge (both Java and XSLT), code standards, attention to detail, as well as emphasis on speed and conserving memory. He also clearly has

Merry Christmas/Frohe Weihnachten!

2003-12-24 Thread Glen Mazza
Yes, thankfully Bertrand came to the rescue for us here! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone! I'll be back to FOP this weekend. Regards, Glen --- Andreas L. Delmelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Bertrand Delacretaz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Seems

Re: [VOTE] Clay Leeds for committer

2003-12-28 Thread Glen Mazza
-1 (veto) Glen --- Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In recognition for his contributions to this project I'd like to propose Web Maestro Clay Leeds as a FOP committer. He's active on both dev and user mailing lists for at least 1 year now. He's actively helping out on the user

Re: [VOTE] Andreas L. Delmelle for committer

2003-12-28 Thread Glen Mazza
Shows interest in FOP Development?!? He hasn't submitted a single patch. -1 Glen (who shows interest in getting a Ph D, so just give me one.) --- Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In recognition for his contributions to this project I'd like to propose Andreas L. Delmelle as a FOP

Re: [VOTE] Chris Bowditch for Committer

2003-12-28 Thread Glen Mazza
Good idea. Actually, more than showing interest in FOP development, Chris has already submitted substantive patches in layout (the most complex part of our system) with welcome enthusiasm. He's also a competent Java and XSLT developer in his own right, i.e. outside of FOP, and hence can be

Re: [VOTE] Clay Leeds for committer

2003-12-29 Thread Glen Mazza
It's not a veto, I just used that term to remind others that committerships require a unanimous vote. My vote is still -1. Glen --- Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A veto must always be accompanied by an explanation. Without an explanation a veto is invalid.

(Changing Vote) Re: [VOTE] Andreas L. Delmelle for committer

2003-12-29 Thread Glen Mazza
Andreas is probably our most valuable contributor and I am very thankful for all the questions he answers each day on both the FOP-DEV and FOP-USER lists, as well as on occasion with the Bugzilla bugs coming in. In particular, his recent handling of a messy disagreement between the committers a

(PMC'ers) give Finn write access...

2003-12-29 Thread Glen Mazza
Joerg/Jeremias, Please do what you need to do to give Finn write access to CVS--I'm drowning in his patches... Thanks, Glen __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/

Re: help with upload the ssh key

2004-01-01 Thread Glen Mazza
--- J.Pietschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Herweg wrote: now that i got an cvs.apache.org account i'd need some help with uploading the ssh key. ... Which tool did you finally use to create the SSH key, and where do you run it? I also tried to generate a new public/private key

Re: AW: help with upload the ssh key

2004-01-01 Thread Glen Mazza
Thanks, Peter, that helped a lot--I downloaded puttygen and am working with it now. Three more questions if anyone can help: 1) I guess we're to use SSH2 and not SSH1, but does it matter whether we use DSA or RSA? Is one much slower than the other? I'll use DSA--it apparently works for you and

RE: (Changing Vote) Re: [VOTE] Andreas L. Delmelle for committer

2004-01-01 Thread Glen Mazza
Andreas, I'm impressed with your very rapid learning of how the code works and interest in fixing it. Actually, you're ahead of me right now in this section of the code--I haven't looked much at tables and hence can't respond yet to your questions. Hopefully the others can comment! Thanks, Glen

Re: AW: help with upload the ssh key

2004-01-01 Thread Glen Mazza
Thanks for your help. Glen --- J.Pietschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glen Mazza wrote: 1) I guess we're to use SSH2 and not SSH1, SSH1 and SSH2 are versions of the protocol, in particular the initial handshake. The SSH1 had a vulnerability. Which protocol is used is determined

Re: Unnecessary import of Constants

2004-01-03 Thread Glen Mazza
Sorry about that; I don't use Eclipse. I just fixed the Constants problem--but the TextAlignLastMaker will be more difficult--it appears to have been there for a long time, well before my recent changes. Glen --- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eclipse is still complaining to me 271

Re: Recent tidying of alt.design

2004-01-03 Thread Glen Mazza
I checked the API, what you describe below is just as it states: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/HashMap.html Its guidance on proper initial value and load factor sizing may be of help for you. Glen --- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recent minor changes to

Re: Regression caused by the string-int conversion

2004-01-05 Thread Glen Mazza
Fixed. Thanks. Glen --- Finn Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/

Re: PropertySets

2004-01-05 Thread Glen Mazza
It's probably not *yet* time to set 1.4 as the JDK to code against for 1.0, but it probably wouldn't be much of a disaster if we did so either. By the time 1.0 is release-ready, 90% will either be on 1.4 or will be upgrading to 1.4 along with the upgrade of FOP 0.20.x to 1.0. The remaining 10%

RE: Draft discussion of Federation proposal

2004-01-05 Thread Glen Mazza
the combined archive would also be a mess.) FOP and Batik support two distinct W3C specs, and as such should remain separate projects. Thanks, Glen Mazza Apache FOP Team __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http

Re: Using Just the Font Metrics Stuff From FOP

2004-01-08 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Eliot Kimber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me know if you need more from me on these patches. Cheers, Eliot Yes, an explanation in Bugzilla on what the patches are for (I haven't been following the thread, and if it takes some weeks to be applied, no one will remember what they're

Re: Remember to update the copyright year

2004-01-09 Thread Glen Mazza
Yes, thanks--I just forgot to a few minutes ago though :( I'll leave a message on my monitor to reduce the chances of me forgetting. Glen --- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremias Maerki wrote: Fellow committers We've got a new year. Please remember to update the copyright

Re: [Bug 25480] - Experimental performance improvements.

2004-01-10 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Finn Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.) For the new PropertyList constructor (in the patch), you appear to be duplicating the element ID argument, once as el, the other time as elementId--just to confirm, they are referring to the same thing (and hence one of them can be removed)?

Re: Compile error in HEAD

2004-01-10 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Simon Pepping [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The cause is that the import section is not sufficient: package org.apache.fop.fo.properties; import org.apache.fop.fo.*; import org.apache.fop.apps.FOPException; With these import statements the compiler applies interface

Re: Compile error in HEAD

2004-01-10 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Glen Mazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but the Eclipse warnings of unneeded imports drives Peter West and a few others crazy. If the above does not work, our only other solution would be a fully qualified import statement. oops...I mean fully qualifying the Constants variables

RE: [Bug 25480] - Experimental performance improvements.

2004-01-11 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Andreas L. Delmelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Finn Bock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [Andreas L. Delmelle] In this case, however, I think you can't fully 'push' these onto the descendants, as this would lead to absurd storage-reqs for quite

Re: [Bug 25480] - Experimental performance improvements.

2004-01-12 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Finn Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I.e., for all those references to the 'foo' property instance for the children of an FO where that value would be inherited, we don't have to create a new Property instance, just a reference to the inherited instance. Right, that is also the

Re: [Bug 25480] - Experimental performance improvements.

2004-01-13 Thread Glen Mazza
OK--this may also be overkill then. Thank you for the analysis. Glen --- Finn Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Glen Mazza] This sounds like it could be an excellent idea--a PropertyRepository (extending, of course, a DelmelleRepository (tm) ;) ) could be a very useful tool for FO Tree

RE: [Bug 25480] - Experimental performance improvements.

2004-01-13 Thread Glen Mazza
. Delmelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Glen Mazza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] OK--this may also be overkill then. Thank you for the analysis. It will prove useful, I am sure --provided we want to uphold the intention to be able to process any size

Re: [PATCH] abandoning code-generated Property.Maker

2004-01-17 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Finn Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The patch does not unnest the Property.Maker class. It doesn't matter all that much to me, but if it is considered a good idea it is easy to do. Ooops...I think I had misread the code there. Actually, hold off on this then. Should the values of

Comments on new property maker implementation

2004-01-18 Thread Glen Mazza
Finn, I've looked at your changes--I like them, and I'm thankful to have someone on our team to be able to redesign the properties as you have. Getting rid of the 250 autogenerated or so classes will be a welcome improvement. Comments right now: 1.) Unlike what I was saying earlier, I don't

Re: [PATCH] abandoning code-generated Property.Maker

2004-01-18 Thread Glen Mazza
Team, I moved the 64 or so property value interfaces from separate autogenerated files to Constants.java yesterday. The work is not perfect--there are still a few linkages to (autogenerated) generic enumerations (I will fix these after we apply Finn's latest properties patch), a couple of

Re: Comments on new property maker implementation

2004-01-18 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Finn Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the biggest improvement is IMHO the easy ability to create special maker subclasses to handle the corner cases. Take a look at IndentPropertyMaker for the calculation of start and end-indent and at BorderWidthPropertyMaker for the special

Re: Comments on new property maker implementation

2004-01-18 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Finn Bock] You should perhaps also be aware that the values in a static array gets assigned to the array one element at a time. So static int[] a = { 101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108 }; becomes in bytecodes: Method static {}

Re: [PATCH] abandoning code-generated Property.Maker

2004-01-19 Thread Glen Mazza
Worked great--thanks! Glen --- J.Pietschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glen Mazza wrote: xsl:apply-templates select=document(propfile)//property[not(@type='generic')] / ) ... I am not an XSLT guru--offhand, does anyone know of a simple way to get the interfaces to appear

RE: Properties question ( again? )

2004-01-19 Thread Glen Mazza
Please fix it whenever you get write access. Glen --- Andreas L. Delmelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shouldn't the latter be rewritten as : this.BackgroundColor = bProps.backColor I'd think so. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the

@author tags in source files (Was re:cvs commit....)

2004-01-20 Thread Glen Mazza
Indeed, last vote about 6-8 months ago was to deprecate the @author tags, and that rule is still on our web site. We'll need a revote to allow them. As a committer, I personally have never bothered with @author tags, but I do like how they show outside developer and corporate contributions to

Re: @author tags in source files (Was re:cvs commit....)

2004-01-21 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that a major motivation for writing OSS is precisely the recognition. When alt-design is completed, I will probably have written the bulk of it, as well as designing it, and I have no intention of removing my @author tags. Why

Re: Unnesting properties and makers.

2004-01-22 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Finn Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, After updating from CVS, it is most likely necessary to do an ant clean to get rid of the old generated maker classes, before building. Great job--the build is now only 604 classes--1/3 removed! This simplification does make the properties

Re: Getting rid of JIMI

2004-01-22 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Dalibor Topic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If that's not the case, would it be possible to use the LGPLd code from http://catcode.com/pngencoder/ and http://www.sixlegs.com/software/png/ for the job, and dropping the dependency on JIMI completely? No, (L)GPL and the Apache licenses are

Re: PDF Transcoder patch

2004-01-22 Thread Glen Mazza
Applied, thanks! Glen --- Thomas DeWeese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've attached a patch for the PDF Transcoder that Batik uses. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/

FO Tree needing knowledge of Area Tree

2004-01-25 Thread Glen Mazza
Some of the previous heated discussion on whether the FO tree could be created without knowledge of the Area Tree apparently has been answered by the XSL specification, with Peter West's view being correct. Property resolution *does* in some areas rely on knowledge of the Area Tree, and the XML

Re: Getting rid of JIMI

2004-01-25 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will probably have some time next month to write a proposal on how our two projects can move closer together to make the code sharing happen. Jeremias Maerki Ummm...Jeremias, remember, your recent nominations for FOP committers included

Re: PDF Transcoder patch

2004-01-25 Thread Glen Mazza
.) There's a few more trivial FOUserAgent-Logger conversions needed in the images package, but I'm awaiting more comments before proceeding. We can discuss the other issue in your original email after this one. Thanks, Glen --- Thomas DeWeese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glen Mazza wrote

Re: Changing policy on minimum JDK requirements for HEAD

2004-01-25 Thread Glen Mazza
Here's the team's comments so far on this topic: Chris: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=107330434824865w=2 Peter West: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=107334589414161w=2 Glen: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=107334968118783w=2 Web Maestro Clay and John Austin:

Re: Changing policy on minimum JDK requirements for HEAD

2004-01-25 Thread Glen Mazza
I suspect we'll be OK with 1.4; and also the graphics bugs I think Joerg was mentioning below with 1.3 makes that latter probably not much of an option going into 2005. Glen --- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glen Mazza wrote: Here's the team's comments so far on this topic

Re: Getting rid of JIMI

2004-01-25 Thread Glen Mazza
Glen Mazza wrote: The current (lowered) committer standards on the FOP team definitely needs to be explained to the Batik team before we get write access to their project--something I'm still far from recommending. Jeremias, being perhaps the leading proponent of the new committer

Re: Comments on the changes to the property subsystem

2004-01-25 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Finn Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but I would like to take the question a bit further and ask where such information should be cached? Storing it in static variables caches it in the classloader which makes it difficult to control the release of the memory. Hmmm...where

Re: Unnesting properties and makers.

2004-01-25 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Finn Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know why we wrap the datatypes instances in a property instance? I think we could avoid the property instance by having the datatypes extends an AbstractProperty class which implement a Property interface: public interface Property

Re: Unnesting properties and makers.

2004-01-25 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Finn Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Glen Mazza] Could you explain why we have the datatypes instances to begin with--what they're for? I'm not sure what their precise purpose is. The datatypes are the slightly more complex property values. The property classes wraps

Re: PDF Transcoder patch

2004-01-25 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Thomas DeWeese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well I think it is probably bad ignore the things it is setup to log. Does the logging stuff have a sort of default 'err' Console logger? You could have it use that if the one passed in is 'null'. We don't have that yet--also, there are

Re: PDF Transcoder patch

2004-01-26 Thread Glen Mazza
with an FOUserAgent. Glen --- Chris Bowditch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glen Mazza wrote: I tried to do a complete switch from FOUserAgent to logger in the images package, was not able to (there are still other cases the FOUserAgent is actually being used.) Glen - I havent looked

Re: Unnesting properties and makers.

2004-01-26 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Finn Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: however, is probably preferable--the word Property figures quite highly in the spec! Do you have a problem remaining with it? Not at all, it is just that I though it would be Good--we can stick with Property then. Indeed. Which package should

Re: Updating licenses

2004-01-29 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When we get the OK, I'll use this to update the licenses in alt-design, and, if that works, I can also do the maint and HEAD sources. Sounds quite good. You've made *many* friends today... ;) Glen __ Do you

Re: [PATCH] unnesting Property.Maker and rollling datatypes into thier properties.

2004-02-02 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Finn Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like it. How does this sound: - Unnest Property.Maker to PropertyMaker and put it in fo.properties. - Roll the datatypes classes into their property class and move the property class to fo.properties (but without unnesting their Maker class

ExampleXML2PDF.java not working

2004-02-02 Thread Glen Mazza
I cannot get the ExampleXML2PDF.java example[1] to work with CVS HEAD. Jeremias, I believe you were going to fix something in the Driver class--something wrong with driver.getContentHandler(), correct? Is that where the problem is? I can look at it if you don't have the time right now. Thanks,

Re: ExampleXML2PDF.java not working

2004-02-03 Thread Glen Mazza
Thanks for the help. --- Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fixed it...sort of. I've done what I've announced in the thread below. I'm not sure, however, if it will work in every situation as there is still an obscure little code section in render(). Anyway, ExampleXML2PDF produces

RE: Just a small question...

2004-02-04 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Andreas L. Delmelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Nikolai Grigoriev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you look into XEP's main jar (e.g. xep372_trial.jar), you can find the preprocessor stylesheet under com/renderx/xep/pre/processor.xsl. This stylesheet

(FOP examples) XSLT question

2004-02-04 Thread Glen Mazza
Since this is FOP work-related, I guess I can be allowed to ask a very newbie XSLT question here: I just added a parameter to one of the XSL example files (eventually to show the use of a JAXP transformer.setParam() call) as follows: xsl:param name=versionParam select=1.0/ ... ...

RE: Just a small question...

2004-02-05 Thread Glen Mazza
[Pardon me, Peter, for more shooting from the hip...] --- Andreas L. Delmelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --nor should FOP developers even be looking at its internals. Matter of simple integrity. I think this is a bit over the top. Suppose that tomorrow, someone gets fired at RX or AH,

RE: Just a small question...

2004-02-05 Thread Glen Mazza
I really appreciate your enthusiasm and am very happy, upon you finding something possibly of use to FOP on another ML, of your bringing it back to the team. We should just be careful in this particular case, however. (BTW, you may also wish to look at Xalan, Batik, and Cocoon for other

Re: Contributions from competing products (was: Just a small question...)

2004-02-06 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Clay Leeds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip/ I would posit that the *issue* of how to deal with PATCH contributions should be discussed so that a plan/protocol can be achieved. This needs to occur at least at the project (FOP) level (possibly ending with a VOTE), but should really be

Re: (Peter) Re: Just a small question...

2004-02-06 Thread Glen Mazza
No big deal--but I do wish to add that my phrasing that you were *intentionally* trying to attribute Andreas' quotes to me was wrong, and I do apologize for that. Anyway, let's get back to work... Glen --- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: __ Do you

Re: FOP components

2004-02-07 Thread Glen Mazza
--- J.Pietschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - avalon and logging for the base library. The avalon jar is indeed quite small (only 25K or so), but this dependency I'd like us to eventually get rid of in favor of what Xalan does with its messaging and i18n instead. (I suspect AH or RX don't

(test message)

2004-02-07 Thread Glen Mazza
Pardon me...just testing POP forwarding... Thanks, Glen

Re: FOP components

2004-02-08 Thread Glen Mazza
Peter B. West wrote: If we go to 1.4, should we also use 1.4 logging (java.util.logging) and possibly also the preferences API (java.util.prefs) for configuration/user agent/user prefs? I don't know Avalon, so I don't know what other facilities from there we are using or considering

Re: FOP components

2004-02-09 Thread Glen Mazza
+1 --- Chris Bowditch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You would make FOP unavailable to 70% of the user base. Take a look at Sun's Xmlroff, it has a feature set comparable to the maintainance branch, its free, but FOP has a much bigger user base. Why? because xmlroff doesnt run on windows,

Re: PMC representation change, still ot ack'ed

2004-02-09 Thread Glen Mazza
Sounds good. --- Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just noticed that Joerg still hasn't been formally voted in in the XML PMC as a replacement for Peter. Since this was more than 2 months ago I wanted to check if this is still ok. I'll start the vote in the XML PMC on Wednesday

JAXP question

2004-02-10 Thread Glen Mazza
Team, I deprecated some of the methods in XSLTInputHandler to encourage use of JAXP. Any problems here--this was basically agreed to, but several months ago--I just never got to it. Also, big issue--I'm trying to implement command-line XSLT param handling. Most of the code came from

Re: cvs commit: fop.bat

2004-02-11 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Finn Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last time I had to work on cmdline args in windows, the %* trick didn't work on win9x: That's a shame--the code is very simple. Perhaps we should just copy the loop from ant and hope that ant works on win9x. Good idea--done--thanks. Glen

Re: PMC representation

2004-02-11 Thread Glen Mazza
Ja, +1, bitte auf dem PMC bleiben. Danke. Glen --- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremias, I have no problem with your continuing. If we need a formal vote, Jeremias to remain as one of our PMC representatives: +1 Peter -- Peter B. West

Re: XSLT-support related question

2004-02-11 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Andreas L. Delmelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Started having strange ideas on the possibility of a scenario like 1 XML + 1 XSLT = n FOs = n PDFs XSLT processors support extension functions for the output to multiple FOs, but in what way could (or does) FOP support the

RE: JAXP question

2004-02-11 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Andreas L. Delmelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAICT SAXTransformerFactory has its own getTransformerHandler() method. Maybe you can use this to set up a Handler, then manipulate the related Transformer ( setParams() ) through TransformerHandler.getTransformer(). After that, you can

RE: XSLT-support related question

2004-02-11 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Andreas L. Delmelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The XSLT extension functions actually are meant to redirect certain parts of the transformation result to other files. Yes, our properties.xsl used to do that for the 250 or so autogenerated property class files. In the case such a strategy

Re: FOP report

2004-02-12 Thread Glen Mazza
Congratulations! Glen --- Christian Geisert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That would be me ;-) I'm in temporary lurking mode as there are other things with a higher priority at the moment (happy daddy since two weeks! [1]) -- Christian [1] http://www.geisert.de/bilder/anika-papa.jpg

Re: JAXP question

2004-02-14 Thread Glen Mazza
-Original Message- From: Glen Mazza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Andreas L. Delmelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAICT SAXTransformerFactory has its own getTransformerHandler() method. Maybe you can use this to set up a Handler, then manipulate the related

Re: [xsl] creating multiple pdf-files from one xml

2004-02-16 Thread Glen Mazza
Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: Nightmares... Anyone to come and chase them away? Please...? ;) One thing to keep in mind, although I'm unsure of its relevance to this discussion, is we use Xalan only through JAXP--so if I'm not mistaken, the user is welcome to replace that with another

Re: [xsl] creating multiple pdf-files from one xml

2004-02-16 Thread Glen Mazza
Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: -Original Message- From: Glen Mazza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] So we not can assume the xml-xsl-fo processing was had via Xalan--and even if it were so, it also could have been done via its translets (compiled XSLT) feature. Aw, great! You just *had

Re: [PATCH] Support for percentages and table-units

2004-02-17 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Finn Bock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The layout dimension that is stored in the FO tree is constantly updated during discovery of BreakPoss'es and is never reused, not even when a block is split over a break where new values are assigned. I don't know enough to comment too much on

Re: [PATCH] Support for percentages and table-units

2004-02-18 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Simon Pepping [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my view FOP consists of a number of subsystems that are ordered from upstream to downstream. The FO tree is the most upstream system, the area tree (or objects that are constructed by a renderer) is the most downstream system. Information

Web Maestro vs. The Breadcrumb Problem

2004-02-22 Thread Glen Mazza
Clay, I'm *very* happy to see you working on fixing the pesky breadcrumb problem[1] on our website. I'm also seeing that you're bringing yourself up to speed with the usage of Forrest [2], something few (any?) of us have, outside of just being able to edit the XML documents. (This

[VOTE] Remove Visitor Patterns from AbstractRenderer.java

2004-02-22 Thread Glen Mazza
Team, To simplify the Area Tree--Renderer interaction somewhat, making this section of the code easier to follow, I'd like to make two changes to the code: 1.) Remove the serveVisitor() methods in AbstractRenderer.java [1], and return to what we were using last year, that of having the

PS PCL: How do I test them?

2004-02-23 Thread Glen Mazza
Team, simple question: I use Adobe Acrobat to test PDF results. Are there any free/open-source viewers to test PCL and PS results -- on either Windows or Linux? I've never used PS PCL before, so I don't know much about them. Thanks, Glen

Re: [VOTE] Remove Visitor Patterns from AbstractRenderer.java

2004-02-24 Thread Glen Mazza
2.) (This I'm less sure on) After reverting, I'd like to remove the render functions within the InlineArea objects in favor of direct function calls within AbstractRenderer: -1 Remember one of the three basic OO principles: use virtual methods instead of switch according to a class marker.

RE: [VOTE] Remove Visitor Patterns from AbstractRenderer.java

2004-02-25 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Andreas L. Delmelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does any package other than the renderers really *need* access to the renderInlineXXX methods? No, they're now protected--furthermore, whether or not such renderInlineXXX methods even exist within a Renderer is now up to the renderer (the

Re: [VOTE] Remove Visitor Patterns from AbstractRenderer.java

2004-02-26 Thread Glen Mazza
--- J.Pietschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question: in the maintenance branch, leader expansion and text justification is done just before a line is rendered in the LineArea.render() method. The reason for this is that it's only the renderer which knows when page number references are

Re: fop-cvs Digest 27 Feb 2004 18:53:01 -0000 Issue 868

2004-02-27 Thread Glen Mazza
Thanks! thanks! thanks! Glen --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5209 by: jeremias.apache.org Applied Apache License Version 2.0 by following the instructions at http://www.apache.org/dev/apply-license.html.

Re: [VOTE] Remove Visitor Patterns from AbstractRenderer.java

2004-02-27 Thread Glen Mazza
--- J.Pietschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is that text justification and leader expansion is a layout task, not a renderer task. Absolutely, much of the logic needs to be in the layout objects, which interface with the Renderer classes, indeed activate them. That's fine, normal

Re: cvs commit: xml-fop/src/hyph cs.xml da.xml de.xml de_DR.xml el.xml en_GB.xml en_US.xml fr.xml nl.xml no.xml sk.xml tr.xml

2004-02-27 Thread Glen Mazza
Can you give us a link stating that? I know we can't distribute (L)GPL stuff, if that is the issue. Thanks, Glen --- Simon Pepping [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are those legal problems? The Dutch file nl.xml is based on the hyphenation patterns created by the Dutch TeX user group, and are

[VOTE] Clay Leeds for Committer

2004-02-29 Thread Glen Mazza
Team, Waxing chutzpaic, I'd like us to try again to make Clay a committer on this project. You may recall his committership didn't pass last December (I can't remember who blocked it, it might have been Jeremias ;-), but especially with the loss of Victor, I think it's becoming increasingly

Re: [VOTE] Clay Leeds for Committer

2004-02-29 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Jeremias Maerki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you please enlighten me what the words below mean? On 29.02.2004 22:10:42 Glen Mazza wrote: Waxing chutzpaic, Well, that joke didn't work. ;) Long Answer: There's a certain amount of chutzpah inherent in the statement I'd like us

Re: Thanks Jeremias

2004-03-03 Thread Glen Mazza
HOORAY :) --- Chris Bowditch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would also like to thank Jeremias for sorting out the licensing, not the nicest of jobs, so three cheers for Jeremias, hip hip :-) Chris

Re: fop-dev used to spread virus

2004-03-03 Thread Glen Mazza
Thanks, Manuel. We have about 430 people on FOP-DEV, last time we checked, so it would be hard to find the problem account. Still, sending to infrastructure... (well, I believe it's called infrastructure @ apache dot org, I'll be corrected soon otherwise... ) Glen --- Manuel Mall [EMAIL

Re: namespace-prefixes

2004-03-03 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In HEAD, ///apps/FOFileHAndler.java contains the following: factory.setFeature( http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes;, true); snip/ That is, I would turn allow the namespace-prefixes feature to remain in

Re: fop.xconf

2004-03-03 Thread Glen Mazza
I haven't looked at it--but this was before my time on the project, fop.xconf hasn't been altered since December 2002. It appears to be related to Avalonization of FOP. For the benefit of other relative newcomers, it is located here: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-fop/conf/fop.xconf And

Re: namespace-prefixes

2004-03-04 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Elliotte Rusty Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I ask on reading this code is why you're using SAXParserFactory at all? SAXParserFactory is a Sun class they invented to fill a hole in SAX 1.0. It's unnecessary in SAX 2.0. SAX2 apps should use XMLReaderFactory instead, which has

Re: [VOTE] Clay Leeds for Committer

2004-03-07 Thread Glen Mazza
Clay Leeds wrote: Perhaps I might even pick up a Java book and figure out how to add command line parameters to FOP (I'm hoping I won't have to figure out the issue that Glen and Andreas raised[1] in February, though...:-p). Sure, you'll have plenty of Java coding experience if you wish--there

Re: FOP web site update

2004-03-07 Thread Glen Mazza
Nice job, Clay--I'm very happy with the whole site PDF in particular. Jeremias, would you please request write access for Clay now? Thanks, Glen Clay Leeds wrote: I thought you'd like to see a brief update on the FOP web site trials and tribulations. I've uploaded the web portion of the output

Re: CMYK- jpg

2004-03-12 Thread Glen Mazza
Unsubscribe here and subscribe to FOP-USER. Glen Naveen M V wrote: Hi All, I need to generate PDF files using XSL-FO transformation and embed CMYK -jpeg for printing. I am using fop-0.20.5. Can any body help. Regards/Naveen

temporarily inactive

2004-03-13 Thread Glen Mazza
Team, I'll be taking a few weeks off the project, there's some things I want to study and get out of the way right now. I'll be back to coding soon! Thanks, Glen

Re: InputHandler - re baseURL commits

2004-03-16 Thread Glen Mazza
(Hmmm...I'm supposed to be learning Cocoon right now, but am already suffering FOP-withdrawal. Apache's got me good... ;) [just removed the namespace-prefixes issue you were mentioning earlier, btw.] FOFileHandler.createParser() is just a simple static function that generates a parser. It can

Re: Web Start

2004-03-18 Thread Glen Mazza
Peter B. West schrieb: Fops, Does anyone have any detailed knowledge of Web Start? It occurred to me that it may be a way to resolve some of the licensing issues we (and other projects) are running into. Any educated thoughts on the matter? Peter I didn't know about Web Start--looks very

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