FOP Compliance Page was: getPageCount and FOP 1.0dev
Got the Forrest installation and site generation sorted out. Just as an observation the site claims to be HTML 4.01 compliant but when you submit it to the W3C validator it fails validation. Basically we are making an unsubstantiated claim on compatibility here. The problems seems however to be mainly in Forrest and I have lodge an issues with them. However, I do wonder if we have to remove the compliance claim (the W3C HTML 4.01 logo) until we are really compliant? BTW, the Forrest site which uses the same skin has the same problem. Another observation: FOP being a project under the XML family shouldn't we have an XHTML compliant site? I am guessing that this is a Forrest skin issue as well? Last observation: The compliance page (table columns) looks ugly under Firefox. Its fine under IE 6, Opera, Konqueror. The problem is the right floating background image under external links which Firefox seems to ignore when calculating cell widths causing cells to overflow into their neighbours. Not sure what we can do about that its just a bit sad if our site looks bad under the most popular open source browser. Back to the compliance page. I assume what is required is some indication of 1.0dev compliance vs 0.20.5 compliance. To achieve that we could: a) Add extra columns, eg. Support (0.20.5)|Support (1.0dev) Basic | Extended | Complete | Basic | Extended | Complete ... b) Add extra columns like Support Basic | Extended | Complete 0.20.5| 1.0Dev | 0.20.5| 1.0Dev | 0.20.5| 1.0Dev | ... c) Leave the column structure as is and record it in the column values, i.e. instead of Yes we could have a list of version numbers eg. 0.20.5, 1.0dev. If its partial its indicated in brackets behind the version number. Option c) is probably the easiest to manage as the table structure doesn't change as we add/remove releases from the table. b) is probably the easiest on the eye for a quick visual comparison but with each release added/removed the whole table structure changes making it work intensive to maintain. Feedback please Manuel On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 12:51 am, Jeremias Maerki wrote: ... On 30.07.2005 18:38:55 Manuel Mall wrote: ... On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 10:11 pm, Jeremias Maerki wrote: ... ... The file that would need to be changed is this one: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/documentation /con tent/xdocs/compliance.ihtml Stylesheets used with the above document: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk/src/documentation /res ources/stylesheets/ ... Jeremias Maerki
Re: Element list generation for tables (special case)
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 03:46:31PM +0200, Jeremias Maerki wrote: Sorry, but I have trouble understanding what you mean. Could you please elaborate with an example? Thanks. On 30.07.2005 13:54:25 Simon Pepping wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:40:25PM +0200, Jeremias Maerki wrote: I was under the impression that the breaker automatically favors break decisions that take up less space. It even goes so far that if you have a minimum=0pt and an optimum=2opt on a space-before, that it currently chooses 0pt which is not so good, actually. Penalties would help. If there were a penalty associated with the break below 'B', then the break above it becomes more favourable. I do not think the breaker could do that otherwise (without the newly proposed rule). If there were a penalty value associated with a break that makes the table longer, e.g. 0.1 * w, then the following list would result: 8) box w=9600 9) penalty p=0 w=0 10) box w=28800 11) penalty p=0 w=0 12) box w=0 //-- this is where the second row starts 13) penalty p=960 w=9600 //this penalty is due to the possible break after B 14) box w=28800 15) penalty p=0 w=0 //this is the next break poss after three lines //due to the orphan setting 16) box w=28800 Now a break at 12 would have 960 demerits. A break at 10 would have 0 demerits, but because it would have less content on the page it would have a larger stretch and that would itself associated demerits, say 500. Then the break at 10 would be selected. In general, the table breaker may select breaks with a skew placement of table contents, e.g. xxx | | --|- | xxx' | yyy over breaks with a more even placement of table contents, e.g. xxx | yyy' | --|- | xxx' | yyy Such breaks are rather ugly. They also make the table considerably longer. One can use the extra length of the table as a measure of skew placement and thus of ugliness and of the penalty value associated with this break. This makes that breaks with a skew placement of content are disfavoured, and only selected when more even breaks have lots of demerits themselves, due to other causes. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.nl
Re: DO NOT REPLY [Bug 35939] New: - [PATCH] Port of 0.20.5 Driver.java class
On Jul 30, 2005, at 17:34, Manuel Mall wrote (on bugzilla): Manuel, Devs, To be able to simply replace a 0.20.5 fop.jar with 1.0dev fop.jar I have written a backwards compatible apps.Driver.java class. Everything in the class has been labelled as deprecated. FWIW: Personally, besides the compatibility issue, I'm not too happy with the current situation where the very same class is used for both command-line and embedded use (Fop.java) --one class acts both as a standalone application and as a component. That's considered an anti-pattern they call Subversion of Control in Avalon terminology[1] :-) I've been checking the discussion on fop-dev concerning the removal of Driver[2]. From the looks of it, at least one developer had similar reservations about removing it. It's a pity the discussion itself remained rather superficial. Cheers, Andreas [1] http://excalibur.apache.org/framework/component-design.html [2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-devm=108942539604883w=2
Help to convert an XML document to another format
Greetings, I am not a programmer, so when I encounter the type of problem that I will expose, I am ever so grateful :-) I have a report per machine and the report can only be saved in XML. I would like to now convert the report in whatever, HTML, DOC, PDF, spreadsheet etc. The issue is that I need to be able to exploit it. I have posted the report on my site: http://www.cisware.co.uk/xmlproblem its only 20 K Anybody could give me a tool to just convert this thing? I am fluent in English/French. Best wishes, Jimmy
Bug report for Fop [2005/07/31]
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| Bugzilla Bug ID |
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| | Status: UNC=Unconfirmed NEW=New ASS=Assigned|
| | OPN=ReopenedVER=Verified(Skipped Closed/Resolved) |
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| | | Severity: BLK=Blocker CRI=CriticalMAJ=Major |
| | | MIN=Minor NOR=Normal ENH=Enhancement |
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| | | | Date Posted |
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| | | | | Description |
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| 635|Opn|Nor|2001-02-18|Doesn't support id= attribute in fo:page-sequence |
| 953|Opn|Nor|2001-03-12|Incorrect hyperlinks area rendering in justified t|
| 1063|New|Nor|2001-03-21|fop does not handle large fo files|
| 1180|New|Maj|2001-04-02|Problem with monospaced font |
| 1859|Opn|Min|2001-05-22|org.apache.fop.apps.Driver.reset() doesn't fully r|
| 1998|New|Nor|2001-06-05|linefeed-treatment not understood |
| 2150|Ass|Maj|2001-06-13|New page with a table-header but without any tabl|
| 2475|Ass|Nor|2001-07-06|Borders don't appear to work in fo:table-row|
| 2740|New|Maj|2001-07-23|multi-page tables sometimes render badly |
| 2909|New|Maj|2001-07-30|Gradient render error |
| 2964|Ass|Nor|2001-08-02|problems with height of cells in tables |
| 2988|New|Maj|2001-08-03|0.19: list-item-label does not stick to list-item-|
| 3044|Ass|Maj|2001-08-08|keep-together not functioning |
| 3280|New|Nor|2001-08-27|PCL Renderer doesn't work |
| 3305|Opn|Nor|2001-08-28|list-block overlapping footnote body |
| 3497|New|Cri|2001-09-07|id already exists error when using span=all attr|
| 3824|New|Blk|2001-09-25|MIF option with tables|
| 4030|New|Nor|2001-10-08|IOException creating Postscript with graphics on S|
| 4126|New|Nor|2001-10-12|FontState.width() returns pts instead of millipts |
| 4226|New|Nor|2001-10-17|The orphans property doesn't seem to work |
| 4388|New|Nor|2001-10-24|Nullpointer exception in the construction of new D|
| 4415|New|Nor|2001-10-25|scaling=uniform does not work on images... |
| 4510|New|Nor|2001-10-30|fo:inline common properties ignored? |
| 4535|New|Maj|2001-10-31|PCL renderer 1.13 not rendering SVG |
| 4767|New|Nor|2001-11-09|SVG text is distored in PDF output|
| 5001|New|Nor|2001-11-21|content-width and content-height ignored? |
| 5010|New|Enh|2001-11-21|Better error reporting needed |
| 5124|New|Maj|2001-11-27|fo:block-container is not rendered properly using |
| 5335|Opn|Min|2001-12-10|Text with embedded CID fonts not retrievable from |
| 5655|Ass|Nor|2002-01-02|text-decoration cannot take multiple values |
| 6094|Opn|Maj|2002-01-29|0.20.3rc hangs in endless loop|
| 6237|Opn|Nor|2002-02-05|#xFB01 (fi ligature) produces a sharp? |
| 6305|New|Nor|2002-02-07|Using fo:table-and-caption results in empty output|
| 6427|New|Enh|2002-02-13|Adding additional Type 1 fonts problem|
| 6437|New|Maj|2002-02-13|Tables without fo:table-column don't render |
| 6483|New|Nor|2002-02-15|Table, Loop, footer could not fit on page, moving|
| 6844|New|Nor|2002-03-04|No line breaks inserted in list-item-label|
| 6918|New|Enh|2002-03-06|reference-orientation has no effect |
| 6997|New|Nor|2002-03-09|[PATCH] Row-spanned row data breaks over a page wi|
| 7140|New|Enh|2002-03-15|page-position attribute set to last on condition|
| 7241|New|Nor|2002-03-19|keep-with-previous, keep-with-next only working on|
| 7283|New|Nor|2002-03-20|Table border misaligned when using margin-left in |
| 7337|New|Nor|2002-03-21|border around external image leaves empty space |
| 7487|New|Nor|2002-03-26|break-before=page for table inserts empty page |
| 7496|New|Nor|2002-03-26|The table header borders are not adjusted to the b|
| 7525|New|Cri|2002-03-27|table with spans inside a list-block |
| 7919|New|Cri|2002-04-10|problem to use attribute linefeed-treatment and li|
| 8003|Ass|Maj|2002-04-12|FopImageFactory never releases cached images |
| 8050|New|Nor|2002-04-13|Soft hyphen (shy;) is not handled properly |
| 8321|New|Nor|2002-04-19|from-parent('width') returns 0 for nested tables |
| 8463|New|Nor|2002-04-24|SVG clipping in external.fo example doc when rende|
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Re: Help to convert an XML document to another format
Hi! I'm using apache cocoon to pass xml documents from xml to html and from xml to pdf. Check cocoon features on http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/features.html and see if it fits your problem. It is not an easy framework for non-programmers though. CarlosN. On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Jimmy Pierre wrote: Greetings, I am not a programmer, so when I encounter the type of problem that I will expose, I am ever so grateful :-) I have a report per machine and the report can only be saved in XML. I would like to now convert the report in whatever, HTML, DOC, PDF, spreadsheet etc. The issue is that I need to be able to exploit it. I have posted the report on my site: http://www.cisware.co.uk/xmlproblem http://www.cisware.co.uk/xmlproblem it's only 20 K Anybody could give me a tool to just convert this thing? I am fluent in English/French.. Best wishes, Jimmy --
Re: FOP Compliance Page was: getPageCount and FOP 1.0dev
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005 09:09 am, The Web Maestro wrote: On Jul 31, 2005, at 4:28 PM, Manuel Mall wrote: ... I seems originally the compliance page was created using some XSLT transformations (see src/documentation/resources/stylesheets). Has this approach been abandoned? I can't find the input file. I believe it was originally, however that broke and I wasted many hours of time trying to get it to work. It's likely that the file compliance.xml is a good starting point (in xdocs/) Do you mean src/documentation/content/xdocs? I can't find a compliance.xml there in SVN. Never mind, I'll take your advice that its broken any way and will edit the compliance.ihtml.
