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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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