Re: cvs commit: xml-fop/src/documentation/content/xdocs/design/alt.designclasses-overview.xml

2002-12-02 Thread Peter B. West
days, and I will fix the encoding at the same time, unless there is a more urgent need. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe,

Re: Still on for freeze deadline?

2002-12-01 Thread Peter B. West
J.Pietschmann wrote: Arved Sandstrom wrote: Considering that our new chief executive is Greg Stein, I'd be surprised if this isn't on the horizon. :-) Gosh! Can we have it before Christmas? :-) 2003? Good to see you back, Joerg. Good holiday? Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL

Re: Alt-Design status: XML handling

2002-11-29 Thread Peter B. West
rough the cracks. Some such approach may be a good idea, but I would be loathe to call it EventHandler. The whole point about pull parsing is to move away from event handling. I would think of these more as methods with parameters like "optional", "single" or "multi

Re: docs for maintenance release

2002-11-28 Thread Peter B. West
branch. Another possibility. especially for directories are not going to be merged back into the HEAD and whose content is largely the same, is to merge them out from HEAD into maint. Not having followed the details of the proposed changes very closely, I would have to look at individual cases.

Re: Still on for freeze deadline?

2002-11-28 Thread Peter B. West
to either 1) only want them moved in one branch (probably not desirable), or 2) move them twice, once for each branch. Especially on the maintenance branch, you will want to be careful to get the new files tagged with the maintenance branch tag. I don't think anyone here knows all of the implica

Re: Still on for freeze deadline?

2002-11-27 Thread Peter B. West
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Moving around directories on the server so we don't lose history on files. See my proposal on directory structure reorganization, ex. moveing src/org to src/java/org. On 27.11.2002 16:19:26 Peter B. West wrote: Jeremias Maerki wrote: BTW: Anybody around with exper

Re: regarding properties

2002-11-27 Thread Peter B. West
ing on the redesign so that i will work on them first.how about keep properties? Sri, You have picked just about the toughest layout problem of them all. If you want to work on this one, you have to get involved in redesign, with either the HEAD line or alt.design. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL

Re: need help regarding properties implementions

2002-11-27 Thread Peter B. West
t the FOs, to apply those values. Alt-Design takes the second view. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Still on for freeze deadline?

2002-11-27 Thread Peter B. West
Jeremias Maerki wrote: BTW: Anybody around with experience in CVS surgery??? Not really, but what do you want to do? Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall

Re: Alt-Design status: XML handling

2002-11-25 Thread Peter B. West
xhausted." But, a pull model can be grafted onto a push model by implementing what amounts to a specialized buffer of the pushed data that accepts pull queries...no? Which is what I have done. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.c

Re: Alt-Design status: XML handling

2002-11-25 Thread Peter B. West
Oleg Tkachenko wrote: Peter B. West wrote: I don't believe is is only a matter of style. I think the detrimental effects of push for general programming are glaringly obvious. It's just event-driven processing, how it could be detrimental? I may have referred to Dijkstra (R.

Re: Forrest updates

2002-11-25 Thread Peter B. West
it is to answer the mailing lists, we might be able to eliminate some of the mailing list traffic. And if it is not automatic, an explanation of the easier than before manual process would be useful. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to wh

Re: Alt-Design status: XML handling

2002-11-25 Thread Peter B. West
Oleg Tkachenko wrote: Peter B. West wrote: Why is it easier for developers to use? Is it because the API is less complex or more easily understood? Not really. As you point out, the SAX API is not all that complex. The problem is that the processing model of SUX is completely inverted

Re: Problems with examples

2002-11-25 Thread Peter B. West
W. Eliot Kimber wrote: Oleg Tkachenko wrote: Peter B. West wrote: I have debugging my FO tree building be running it against various example fo files. Of the three I have used so far, I have found problems with two. ./docs/examples/pagination/allregions.fo has the problem that I

Problems with examples

2002-11-23 Thread Peter B. West
ar as XSL-FO is concerned. It is a system-color(), however, as far as FOP is concerned. I assume that these errors are not deliberate, and that I should clean them up as I go. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord,

Re: Alt-Design status: XML handling

2002-11-23 Thread Peter B. West
od reasons why the layout is not susceptible to the same simple solution.. I do have a number of ideas to contribute, and when the web site is restored I will be referring to some of the notes I have made and posted there. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwe

Re: Alt-Design status: XML handling

2002-11-22 Thread Peter B. West
hen I talk about the layout engine, I have in mind the process that builds the layout tree, and moves chunks as they are completed into the area tree. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" --

Re: fo validation issue

2002-11-21 Thread Peter B. West
Oleg Tkachenko wrote: Peter B. West wrote: I like pull parsing model in general, but how do you manage with not such strict content model as fo:root have, e.g. fo:block with (#PCDATA|%inline;|%block;)* ? How about: FoXMLEvent ev = expectStartElement

Re: Alt-Design status: XML handling

2002-11-21 Thread Peter B. West
Oleg, ... Oleg Tkachenko wrote: Peter B. West wrote: taking a very isolated path. My motivation can be summed up in the slogan SAX SUX. I couldn't understand why anyone would persist with it for any complex tasks, e.g. FOP. Actually I cannot say I fully agree with this, because I

Alt-Design status: XML handling

2002-11-20 Thread Peter B. West
currently working through the fo examples. Once that is done, I will have to fill in any blanks. TODO: Corresponding properties. Complete PropertyValue validation. Comprehensive testing. Complete provision for markers in all FO classes. Other things I can't think of now. More later on the

Re: fo validation issue

2002-11-20 Thread Peter B. West
= expectCharacters(); return ev; } Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sample FO Documents

2002-11-20 Thread Peter B. West
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Re: [VOTE] Victor as committer

2002-11-20 Thread Peter B. West
Keiron Liddle wrote: Hi Developers, I propose we have a vote for Victor to become a committer. +1 Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To u

Re: Xerces 2.2.1

2002-11-19 Thread Peter B. West
ument is called two times. -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting breaks: revisited

2002-11-19 Thread Peter B. West
Keiron Liddle wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 15:07, Peter B. West wrote: If possible I think we should try to avoid making multiple passes since it can lead to loops etc. The table layout auto will need at least two passes but this should be possible using the layout managers. Is that a

Re: Xerces 2.2.1

2002-11-19 Thread Peter B. West
Jeremias Maerki wrote: Hi Peter I should have done that earlier because about at the same time I updated to Xerces 2.2.0, Xerces 2.2.1 was published and I knew it was a bugfix release. On 19.11.2002 15:18:45 Peter B. West wrote: I'm glad to see that you have upgraded Xerces to 2.2.1. I

Xerces 2.2.1

2002-11-19 Thread Peter B. West
out what was going on. This may fix some problems that have been attributed to Xalan. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe,

Re: Sun xsl formatter being donated to open source

2002-11-19 Thread Peter B. West
ratulated. Are you there, Tony? Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting breaks: revisited

2002-11-19 Thread Peter B. West
ties, I will design and implement the layout engine, and it *will* work. Before then, however, the whole exercise may have been rendered academic by Sun. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" --

Re: Getting breaks: revisited

2002-11-15 Thread Peter B. West
a good job (or at least can't *know* that we did) until we get the entire page-sequence read anyway, which means that we might be better off reading it in before we start & then taking the second approach. FWIW. Actually, I hope to learn a lot from Keiron's repli

Re: Getting breaks: revisited

2002-11-15 Thread Peter B. West
was getting ready to post some details about this, but I wanted to finish the creation of the FO objects first. I will now post them this weekend. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?"

Re: [OT] Apache committers meeting in german-speaking area

2002-11-15 Thread Peter B. West
r in the german-speaking part of the world . . . I might be interested too, depending on where and when. I am subscribed to party@. -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" ---

Re: Getting breaks: revisited

2002-11-15 Thread Peter B. West
e.g., why you don't know when the end of a page has been reached. A shortcut to an understanding of such things would be very useful. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" -

Re: A performance patch for PDFInfo class

2002-11-11 Thread Peter B. West
Kevin O'Neill wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 11:21, Peter B. West wrote: "I like it" is the acid test; for me, of all code, but in particular for open source. Open source may be driven by many things, but money is not one of them. Pleasure is, and is high on the list. In spi

Re: A performance patch for PDFInfo class

2002-11-11 Thread Peter B. West
ce may be driven by many things, but money is not one of them. Pleasure is, and is high on the list. In spite of that, OS generates vast amounts of high-quality software. Go figure. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we g

Re: interface instead of implementation

2002-11-10 Thread Peter B. West
gave me much food for thought. So I'll rephrase the question: what, if anything, is the cost of using the interface instead of the implementation? Peter Peter B. West wrote: > Jeremias, > > I have no objection at all, as long as it costs nothing. It is free, > isn't i

Re: plan for 0.20.5 release

2002-11-09 Thread Peter B. West
Oleg, Thanks for that. I have noticed that there are quite a few people who do respond on dev-user, in addition to yourself and Keiron, which is why I wondered whether Joerg was making a specific request. I eventually concluded he was not. Peter Oleg Tkachenko wrote: Peter B. West wrote

Re: plan for 0.20.5 release

2002-11-08 Thread Peter B. West
hmann wrote: I'm on vacancy from tomorrow on for a bit more than three weeks, so I can't do this myself. Who will take care of the unanswered questions while I'm offline? Oleg? -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "

Re: plan for 0.20.5 release

2002-11-08 Thread Peter B. West
Rhett Aultman wrote: ... as soon as I'm done taking the GRE tomorrow (wishes of luck appreciated)... Consider them wished. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom s

Re: HashMaps (WAS:RE: interface instead of implementation)

2002-11-07 Thread Peter B. West
f the mind - but I'll remember the offer. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HashMaps (WAS:RE: interface instead of implementation)

2002-11-07 Thread Peter B. West
ed subtree, and reestablish it as a "pending". These things just sound interesting - sexy, even, now that you mention it - though I doubt their sex appeal was a strong motive for creating them. The "raw" documentation doesn't really give much of a feel for their potentia

Re: [VOTE] Oleg for committer

2002-11-07 Thread Peter B. West
Provided, of course, that he controls his CRCRs. Peter B. West wrote: +1 -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [VOTE] Oleg for committer

2002-11-07 Thread Peter B. West
+1 Keiron Liddle wrote: Hi Developers, I suggest we have a vote for Oleg to be a committer. If Oleg accepts then he can get on with making FOP great! -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall

Re: interface instead of implementation

2002-11-06 Thread Peter B. West
seen this habit in a number of places and not only by Keiron! I've made it a habit to follow this pattern ... -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" ---

Re: HashMaps (WAS:RE: interface instead of implementation)

2002-11-06 Thread Peter B. West
ts of using WeakHashMaps instead of HashMaps? -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Line ending chaos in our codebase

2002-11-05 Thread Peter B. West
eeds a bit more investigation. As I have said, I have recently seen spurious CRLF endings in checked-out files. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" ---

Re: Line ending chaos in our codebase

2002-11-05 Thread Peter B. West
've started a little check-program (in Java) that analyzes files on their line endings using regex-matching. I think, I'll expand that to a little project including command-line app, ant-task etc. -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwe

Re: Line ending chaos in our codebase

2002-11-05 Thread Peter B. West
form, and is contra-indicated on binary files, while '-kb' is contra-indicated on text files, on which you definitely want expansion. These values, incidentally, come from RCS, and can be read about with 'man co'. Unless something has changed recently, CRLF will h

Re: Line ending chaos in our codebase

2002-11-04 Thread Peter B. West
dea how to... 1. identify files not having correct linevindingstlithoutckaving de opendeach an>every file? 2. enforce correct line endings? -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" ---

Re: Common code in CVS branches

2002-11-04 Thread Peter B. West
en we have a split in the project and that wouldn't be good. Between all committers. I meant that closer liaison between committers is a good thing. All committers then have a more lively appreciation of what the others are up to. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pow

Re: Common code in CVS branches

2002-11-03 Thread Peter B. West
sible. A lot is already there. We can build on that. I concur with Oleg here. (Yes, really.) However, there are people who, as Victor has said, who find the all-or-nothing approach extremely difficult. If they can come up with practical ways of easing such difficulties, their suggest

Re: Common code in CVS branches

2002-11-03 Thread Peter B. West
Victor Mote wrote: Peter B. West wrote: Re some recent questions on this topic. As I understand it, creating a branch in the tree off an existing file set simply involves tagging the set of files with the new branch tag. From that point on, as long as a particular file remains unchanged, a

area tree is serializable

2002-11-03 Thread Peter B. West
Keiron, Re your latest commits, could you comment on what you had to do to "make sure area tree is serializable"? I have been curious about aspects of the serialization of trees for some time now. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ &quo

Common code in CVS branches

2002-11-03 Thread Peter B. West
ll be relative to these tag points. It's kinda messy, but it might just be feasible. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [

Re: Crux of your design

2002-11-03 Thread Peter B. West
problems. My two minutes are up. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: handling patches

2002-11-02 Thread Peter B. West
to benefit from a number of recent developments which I have no intention of writing myself. If you took offence from the "short attention span comment", I am sorry. No such offence was intended. The comment concerns the general approach to development that you mentioned. Peter --

Re: handling patches

2002-11-02 Thread Peter B. West
(and kudos) while the new layout engine languished for want of love and attention. It's a real concern, made all the more real by the tenor of these suggestions. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" -

New xml-lang.xml

2002-11-02 Thread Peter B. West
FrenchName CDATA #REQUIRED > xml-lang.xsl is used to generate CountryLanguageScript.java, the class against which all new CountryType, LanguageType and ScriptType PropertyValues are validated. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom sha

Re: handling patches

2002-11-02 Thread Peter B. West
ick with the existing framework and not be a ground-up reworking. The methodological changes now being discussed are only possible because of that decision, strongly argued by Keiron, I believe. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: handling patches

2002-11-01 Thread Peter B. West
Maybe the simplest is to move the old layout to the trunk, get that working and put the new layout in a branch. But it needs to be agreed upon. How difficult would this be? Would it be you who did most of this, or could you successfully direct others to assist? Peter -- Pet

Re: [Fwd: Regarding your comment about inline building on xsl-editors]

2002-10-30 Thread Peter B. West
&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-dev&m=102011250524180&w=2 -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Wondering about CVS branches

2002-10-25 Thread Peter B. West
messages that at least one of these is called "FOP_0-20-0_Alt-Design". How can I find out about all of the branch names? Which "branch" is the default trunk? The upcoming 0.20.5 maintenance release? -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.

Re: Latest FO schema

2002-10-24 Thread Peter B. West
that is to apply future changes directly. Have a look and let me know if anything needs fixing. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscri

Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: Bug 13699

2002-10-23 Thread Peter B. West
te in english. :-) I'm sorry Jeremias. It was a joke. See bugger and fop in a nearby dictionary. -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubsc

Latest FO schema

2002-10-23 Thread Peter B. West
gnitude for a while (months+) since this one catches all of the mistakes that my team is likely to make. If anyone wants to take on the task of extending the schema with schematron asserts. Feel free. -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "L

Re: AW: Re: Bug 13699

2002-10-22 Thread Peter B. West
7;m planning to write a testcase that runs multiple FOPs simultaneously to find out where the buggers are. Jeremias, What kind of FOPs are we talking about? -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord,

Re: fo validation issue

2002-10-22 Thread Peter B. West
and clearly how it works, but if you sure it's a better way to validate and wont overhead processing, I believe you :) So, do we decide to go this way? Other opinions? This is what is already happening in alt.design, but the structure is very different from the existing processing structur

Re: Bug 13699

2002-10-21 Thread Peter B. West
Jeremias wrote: > I'm planning to write a testcase that runs multiple FOPs > simultaneously to find out where the buggers are. Jeremias, What kind of FOPs are we talking about? Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to

Re: fo validation issue

2002-10-20 Thread Peter B. West
have, e.g. fo:block with (#PCDATA|%inline;|%block;)* ? This basically says, "Anything," so it is also easy. Just get the next event and apply any special processing constraints, like checking for footnote and float in "out-of-line" areas. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fo validation issue

2002-10-19 Thread Peter B. West
tylesheet (or even into java class using xalan's xsltc) during fop building and use it as optional sax filter at run-rime. -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Maintenance release

2002-10-16 Thread Peter B. West
t and so I propose the end of the first week of november > as target date for the release candidate. Does your wife know about this? Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" -

Re: Fw: Arabic characters and FOP

2002-10-10 Thread Peter B. West
pport, if I recall > properly. > > Did I understand properly Peter that FOP 1.0 should support Jdk 1.3 ? -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fw: Arabic characters and FOP

2002-10-09 Thread Peter B. West
but I'm willing to help > (slowly) in other areas in the mean time if the new code is not yet ready to > add these features. I will have a look at the todo list and the state of the > code and come back (privately) when I have some time. > > Patrick Andries > (member of the Ca

Re: Fw: Arabic characters and FOP

2002-10-09 Thread Peter B. West
e no > obstacles for redesigned fop to implement bidi support. > > PS.Actually it's even feasible to produce hebrew pdf using fop right now > (well, under certain circumstances). -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?"

Re: New Developer Suggestion

2002-10-09 Thread Peter B. West
ll at least be relevant to HEAD. > - FO extensions Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fonts

2002-10-07 Thread Peter B. West
Victor Mote wrote: > My apologies for using up so much > bandwidth. Victor, That's what it's there for. No apology required. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord

Re:

2002-10-07 Thread Peter B. West
an attempt to smuggle part of the Transform namespace's constraints into the Format namespace. They are completely different expression environments, which is why it doesn't work. Has anyone else given this any thought? Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.poweru

Vale property stacks

2002-10-04 Thread Peter B. West
storage overhead was too great. Requiescant in pace. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additiona

Re:

2002-09-30 Thread Peter B. West
Arved Sandstrom wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: Tony Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Peter B. West wrote at 30 Sep 2002 13:28:18 +1000: >> > Tony Graham wrote: >> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote at 27 Sep 2002 16:44:32 -0300: >>...

Re:

2002-09-30 Thread Peter B. West
acter" and "a sequence of one character"? Well, one is a sequence, and therefore a string, and there's no XSL conversion, etc. So how do I represent a character? To me, the cleanest, least ambiguous way is to represent a attribute assignment value with "''" - a string literal of length 1. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Fwd: Re: Regarding your comment about on xsl-editors]

2002-09-27 Thread Peter B. West
Original Message Subject: Re: Regarding your comment about on xsl-editors Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:00:53 -0500 From: Paul Grosso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter B. West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: xsl-editors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References

Re:

2002-09-27 Thread Peter B. West
gth one), or is it just a literal (length 1), or just an NCName (length 1), or is it something else? What does it look like, and how is the parser going to handle it? ... > > So IMO the spec is currently very vague on this. > > Then write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking fo

Re:

2002-09-26 Thread Peter B. West
wrote: >>From: Peter B. West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> >>Fopdevs, >> >>Any comments on the representation and parsing of type >>attributes would be gratefully received. > > > This came up on www-xsl-fo, because Eric Bischoff and myself had the same &

Re:

2002-09-26 Thread Peter B. West
me) > and from-table-column( NCName) > (might even make a bit of sense for hyphenation-char and > for fo:character's character in very, very strange cases) A custom parser should not be necessary. The restriction could be expressed as a constraint on the result, checked at the

[Fwd: Re: Regarding your comment about on xsl-editors]

2002-09-26 Thread Peter B. West
Original Message Subject: Re: Regarding your comment about on xsl-editors Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:55:28 +1000 From: "Peter B. West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Paul Grosso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: xsl-editors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAI

fop-dev@xml.apache.org

2002-09-26 Thread Peter B. West
Fopdevs, Any comments on the representation and parsing of type attributes would be gratefully received. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" --

[Fwd: Regarding your comment about on xsl-editors]

2002-09-22 Thread Peter B. West
Original Message Subject: Regarding your comment about on xsl-editors Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:10:28 -0500 From: Paul Grosso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter B. West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peter, Thank you for your comment to [EMAIL PROTE

[Fwd: Regarding your comment about inline building on xsl-editors]

2002-09-22 Thread Peter B. West
t I'm just confused. Peter Original Message Subject: Regarding your comment about inline building on xsl-editors Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 18:37:10 -0500 From: Paul Grosso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter B. West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pe

Re: Style issues.

2002-08-21 Thread Peter B. West
old Ray Bradbury(?) story. Yeesh ;-) -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Style issues.

2002-08-21 Thread Peter B. West
been spoken in some remote monastery.) Peter Arved Sandstrom wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: Peter B. West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: August 20, 2002 9:51 PM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: Style issues. > > [ SNIP ] > >>

Re: Style issues.

2002-08-20 Thread Peter B. West
mind, we might not throw the baby out with the bathwater. > The only encoding rule I'd realy like to have: > Don't mix underscores with camelCase. > Beside looking *really* ugly, it screws up Emacs' dynamic > identifier completion, and I'd rather like to do > something for FOP than fixing this. It comes down to "ugliness", doesn't it? "camelCase" is nice. I haven't heard it before, and I agree with your admonition. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Line breaks around dashes

2002-08-20 Thread Peter B. West
it. In general, the only knowledge we can assume about the characteristics of the text we are processing is what is contained in the database. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/

Re: Style issues.

2002-08-15 Thread Peter B. West
se that convention except that someone always forgets to do >>it and your back where you started. > > I knew that comment would come up. That's why I stamped it as unpopular. > >>what about >> >>currentPageNumber = m_pageNumber + 1; > > I can live with th

Re: FOP memory usage

2002-08-15 Thread Peter B. West
le this. > > I will maintain the following point: the layout managers concept allows > us to explore how to do this sort of thing. I happen to agree. Layout driven from below has to be instructed to go in certain directions by some processes capable of judging the results at higher levels. That's a layout manager *function*, whether it occurs on the page-builder or on an individual block builder. Not drowning, waving. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.powerup.com.au/~pbwest/ "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Property handling

2002-08-14 Thread Peter B. West
J.Pietschmann wrote: > Peter B. West wrote: > >> More less than more, I should think. Parsing is inherently "generic". >> E.g., I assume that you would use the same tokenizer and first-level >> parser. > > > At the tokenizer level, sure. Howeve

Re: FOP memory usage

2002-08-14 Thread Peter B. West
es. > > > Well, if widows="2" and you've laid out a block > and discover there is only one line on the new page, > what do you do? The easiest way seems to be to steal > a line from the previous page. ... Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Style issues.

2002-08-14 Thread Peter B. West
c FlowLayoutManager(FObj fobj) { >Well, bad things happen. Good idea, but we can hardly go crook at anyone who misses something like this. However, if one is about to engage in a wholesale c&p, it is probably worth asking, "Is there a better way?" Peter -- Peter B. We

Re: Property handling

2002-08-13 Thread Peter B. West
olution in the marker subtree must be deferred until the subtree is "re-parented". Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://powerup.com.au/~pbwest "Lord, to whom shall we go?" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Property handling

2002-08-13 Thread Peter B. West
Peter B. West wrote: > J.Pietschmann wrote: > And yes, it is absolutley choc-a-bloc with instancesof and casts, which, Should read "absolutely chock-a-block"; it is not to be confused with the consumption of chocolate. >> - Have a FONode method which goes through

Property handling

2002-08-13 Thread Peter B. West
quot;blink"), so I preconstructed these and had the PropManager select and > return the appropriate TextState object. Interestingly, this seemed > to *increase* memory consumption of the test run, despite, of course, &g

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