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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: problems with jclarks "Driver" and docbook-xsl-1.50.0
At 15:16 28/03/2002 +0100, Michael H.E. Roth wrote: >On Thursday, 28. March 2002 03:40, Dave Pawson wrote: > At 13:19 27/03/2002 +0100, Michael H.E. Roth wrote: > > > > I'm curious how you came to be using XT rather than a more up to date > > processor? What web (or other reference) took you to XT > > rather than say, Saxon or Xalan? > > > > Regards DaveP > >Well, I downloaded the html-version from docbook.org and there they call xp >the most popular sgml-parser in chapter 3 and in chapter 4 the examples are >with XT and FOP. (the others are just mentioned) >I also tried xsltproc but I couldn't get it to take any parameters - just by >coincidence I came across an article last night where it was mentioned that I >have to enclose the parameter value in double qoutes (but I haven't tried >yet). > >Now, Saxon parses OK, but FOP (0.20.3) seems to have a problem with tables >that go across more than one page: >it worked like a charme (about 5 minutes on my Pent 200) with paper.type=A1 >(which is huge) but with paper.type=A5 (about 1/2 size of letter) it now >already renders for more than 900 minutes on one page (I'm afraid it went >into an eternal loop :-( ) without any warning or error message... Yes, I set >the parameter fop.extensions=1 when parsing with saxon. > >Any ideas, or should I try another renderer here Now there's a lesson. Norm? Update to docbook? Please don't recommend XT today. Passivetex is good.... but ferrrrnickity. (the output is gorgeous though :-) Regards daveP... Happy Easter folks.
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