Re: AreaFactory patch

2004-11-03 Thread Chris Bowditch
Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: snip/ Hi fellas, Well... (sigh)... well ('nutha sigh) What *does* Finn think, in that case? So far, I've yet to hear a single *solid* argument pleading against the proposed change. Of course, something like LM Makers can be added later on --the proposed AreaFactory

RE: AreaFactory patch

2004-11-03 Thread Victor Mote
Finn Bock wrote: I got some minor suggestions to the patch: - It should be strict typed: createBlock(..), createInline(..) - It should be complete so that all area creation was done through the factory, not just the 3 areas that Tibor needs. Yes. Victor Mote

RE: Exceptions (was: AreaFactory patch)

2004-11-03 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
-Original Message- From: Peter B. West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Would anyone expect that Defoe would subclass SAXException for document validation errors? If not (it doesn't), why not? Yes, if you use a SAX parser, why not? My point is that at the top-level, no SAXExceptions

[GUMP@brutus]: Project xml-fop (in module xml-fop) failed

2004-11-03 Thread Sam Ruby
To whom it may engage... This is an automated request, but not an unsolicited one. For more information please visit http://gump.apache.org/nagged.html, and/or contact the folk at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Project xml-fop has an issue affecting its community integration. This issue affects 1

RE: AreaFactory patch

2004-11-03 Thread Victor Mote
Glen Mazza wrote: I've bought it due to my work with the apps package and removing AddLMVisitor, and how reducing the complexity allowed many other changes in other areas that weren't previously apparent to occur. I also think that many of your later enhancements in properties wouldn't

RE: AreaFactory patch

2004-11-03 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
-Original Message- From: Victor Mote [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Victor, I know better than to take this bait, but ... No matter... +1 for starters It has already been pointed out that, if the Visitor stuff was so terribly complex, there were other solutions that could be

RE: AreaFactory patch

2004-11-03 Thread Victor Mote
Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: Not only that. The use-case he described doesn't seem at all far-fetched. Imagine FOP/FOray/Defoe having an AWT renderer that displays an editable XSL-FO in one window, the rendered result in the other, and allows for updates/modifications made in the first to

RE: AreaFactory patch

2004-11-03 Thread Glen Mazza
--- Andreas L. Delmelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To be completely honest, I was a bit disappointed when after a couple of months absence, finally able to check out the sources again, I had to find that the whole Visitor design just got kicked out Andreas, we thoroughly discussed the issue

RE: AreaFactory patch

2004-11-03 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
-Original Message- From: Glen Mazza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I disagree with you that FOP should have ceased all development during the four or five months you were off the list. Open-source doesn't work that way. Hmmm... One question: Are you so bent on misinterpreting one's

Re: AreaFactory patch

2004-11-03 Thread Glen Mazza
Andreas L. Delmelle schrieb: -Original Message- From: Glen Mazza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I disagree with you that FOP should have ceased all development during the four or five months you were off the list. Open-source doesn't work that way. Hmmm... One question: Are you so

commenting the Knuth code/centering issue

2004-11-03 Thread Glen Mazza
Luca, Running our embedded.fo example in both FOP 0.20.5 and FOP 1.0 is showing a centering problem for the Embedding SVG title located at the top of the document (this text is located in the fo:block at line 31 of the .fo document.) The title centers correctly in 0.20.5, but is left-justified

Re: AreaFactory patch

2004-11-03 Thread Finn Bock
[Glen] Finn, keep in mind--both you and Simon wanted pluggable LM's, and you even supplied a patch for it a few months ago. But you have been mostly silent on the matter ever since (i.e., it looks like you don't have a need for it ATM.) Or perhaps I've been working on other things, like