Re: Why use XML configuration files?

2002-12-05 Thread Nicola Ken Barozzi
Roland wrote: Hello, I noticed that the apache project uses mostly XML files for configuration. Personally I prefer using .properties files because then I don't have the overhead of parsing the file each time. So what's the advantage of using XML files? They are hierarchical, can easily be

cvs commit: xml-fop/src/documentation cocoon.diff forrest.diff

2002-12-05 Thread keiron
keiron 2002/12/05 01:30:16 Modified:src/documentation cocoon.diff forrest.diff Log: updated to latest cvs Revision ChangesPath 1.3 +18 -19xml-fop/src/documentation/cocoon.diff Index: cocoon.diff

cvs commit: xml-fop/src/org/apache/fop/image GifImage.java

2002-12-05 Thread keiron
keiron 2002/12/05 02:29:12 Modified:src/org/apache/fop/image GifImage.java Log: use a dummy url connection to enable loading of gif image Revision ChangesPath 1.7 +58 -10xml-fop/src/org/apache/fop/image/GifImage.java Index: GifImage.java

Re: Why use XML configuration files?

2002-12-05 Thread Oleg Tkachenko
Roland wrote: I noticed that the apache project uses mostly XML files for configuration. Personally I prefer using .properties files because then I don't have the overhead of parsing the file each time. So what's the advantage of using XML files? Properties are flat and non unicode-aware,

Re: Redesign issues

2002-12-05 Thread Peter B. West
Karen Lease wrote: Peter, ... ... I will make a few comments on the redesign issue. I agree with Arved that we certainly have some large problems to face. As he points out, the mainstream redesign suffers from not being understood and therefore from a lack of active contributors. ...

Re: bugzilla shake-up is over

2002-12-05 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 19:08, Oleg Tkachenko wrote: Hello there! Well, bugzilla shake-up is over, sorry if I closed something not-to-be-closed or leave something-to-be-closed, but anyway I believe we can say bugzilla is cleaned up now. Now it's 111 entries in there (it was 188 IIRC):

RE: Redesign issues

2002-12-05 Thread Rhett Aultman
Responses below. -Original Message- From: Peter B. West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 5:27 PM To: fop-dev Subject: Redesign issues This is the question that everyone has to answer. Blind faith that that the problem can be solved by simply hurling onself

Re: Redesign issues

2002-12-05 Thread Keiron Liddle
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 13:01, Peter B. West wrote: There is an implication in what you are saying that you do have the direction forward for the FO processor internalised, so to speak, and that a complete FO processor is, as Christian says, just a matter of time. I, and I suspect Arved,

Re: bug #13586

2002-12-05 Thread Christian Geisert
Oleg Tkachenko wrote: Hello there! What do you think about http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13586? Stefan asks us to use something like float currentLetterSpacing = (float) 9.99; instead of float currentLetterSpacing = Float.NaN in PDFRenderer.java due to jre-1.3.1 for

Re: [maintenance branch] FOP servlet doubled

2002-12-05 Thread Christian Geisert
J.Pietschmann wrote: [..] web.xml: keep it with the *.java. I would prefer something like src/conf/web.xml servlet.jar: provide a property for the location, defaulting to lib/servlet.jar. Conditionalize the servlet compilation on availability of ${servlet.jar}. Users can either copy a

Re: website

2002-12-05 Thread Christian Geisert
Victor Mote wrote: I see that Keiron has republished the web site. Here are some comments: 1. Keiron, would it help any, now that you have gotten the basic flow going, for one of us to take the web-site publication burden from you? I know Christian is involved in doc. If he does not wish to do

bsf.jar

2002-12-05 Thread Christian Geisert
Hi all, I just noticed bsf.jar in the lib directory and IIRC it was needed by xalan1. As we switched to xalan2 some time ago is it ok for everyone if I remove bsf.jar? Christian - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: docs for maintenance release

2002-12-05 Thread Christian Geisert
Jeremias Maerki wrote: How will we maintain the website after the copy? Change in trunk then copy over to maint branch each time something is changed? Or can we Yes, I'm not sure if automatic merging would work and I don't think there will be a lot of changes. Christian

RE: FOP schema

2002-12-05 Thread Victor Mote
Peter B. West wrote: Victor Mote wrote: While working on an FAQ for FO dtd schema, I see that we have two schema in docs/foschema: fop4f.xsd fop4.xsd. They are similar. Does anyone know what the purpose for both is, why we have 2, or the 4 4f designations? Victor, I think that

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 15119] New: - fo:external-graphic and border properties

2002-12-05 Thread bugzilla
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DO NOT REPLY [Bug 13586] - fop will not work on linux alpha because jre is broken (workarround included)

2002-12-05 Thread bugzilla
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Re: FOP schema

2002-12-05 Thread Peter B. West
Victor Mote wrote: If no one objects, I would like to move this information to fop.xsd let CVS handle the revision issues. The viewcvs program allows us to append a revision number, so we could even branch tag this to keep it tied to releases. Sounds OK. Peter -- Peter B. West [EMAIL

Re: Redesign issues

2002-12-05 Thread Peter B. West
Keiron Liddle wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 13:01, Peter B. West wrote: There is an implication in what you are saying that you do have the direction forward for the FO processor internalised, so to speak, and that a complete FO processor is, as Christian says, just a matter of time. I, and

Re: Alt-Design: Preliminary results FO tree build test

2002-12-05 Thread Peter B. West
Rhett, Nerver having used it, I am not aware of its capabilities. As I don't develop in a Microsoft environment, and have no access to MS Visual C++, and I don't run in a Solaris environment, my options for trying this are limited. If anyone else want to have a look I would be interested in

RE: Alt-Design: Preliminary results FO tree build test

2002-12-05 Thread Rhett Aultman
I have a Solaris box (Sun Blade 100) here at home, but the sources should compile on Linux, I would think. I'm actually looking at integrating a jProf library into an MBean for the JBoss project, and I did all my preliminary work on my Solaris box (some of that research will be in the February