Re: [docbook-apps] why does xsltproc create drafts from DocBook XML?

[Tom Peters <tpeters@xs4all.nl>]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Bob Stayton wrote:

> To turn off the draft mode entirely, you can set the 'draft.mode'
> parameter to 'no' on xsltproc's command line:
>
> xsltproc --stringparam draft.mode no ...
>
> While you are at it, be sure to set the 'fop.extensions' parameter
> to 1 as well with another --stringparam option.
> That avoids certain things in the FO output that
> FOP doesn't handle.
>
> You will still get some warnings and such from FOP, but at
> least you should get PDF output.

Excellent!  These parameters give the best output I've seen sofar.
Two things could be improved:

1) Table positioning is poor.  In several cases a table is started near
the bottom of a page, and should be moved to the next page altogether.  Is
there a way to influence that?

2) The Register (Index) of <glossterm>s at the end refers to page 2 in all
cases.  What can I do about that?  Do I need to run a separate program to
build an index first?  This is built-in in the toolchain that uses TeX.


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Peters" <tpeters@xs4all.nl>
> To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 1:08 PM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] why does xsltproc create drafts from DocBook XML?
>
>
> > I've been trying to get DocBook XML to print.  I've abandoned the DSSSL
> > toolchain and try to get XSLT and FO working.  Now xsltproc generates a
> > .fo file without complaints, using the docbook.xsl from Norman Walsh.
> > Subsequently `fop` however balks at many things.  For one thing:
> >
> >
> > Error creating background image: Error creating FopImage object (Error
> > creating FopImage object
> > (http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/images/draft.png) :
> > org.apache.fop.image.JimiImage
> >
> > Besides the fact that I am on-line and the image is reacheable (so it is
> > odd that fop apparently cannot do anything with it), I don't want a
> > "draft" watermark in my print in the first place.
> > How come that this comes out of xsltproc?  In NW's pagesetup.xsl there
> > are stanza's like:
> > <xsl:if test="$draft.mode != 'no'">
> > that should prevent references to the $draft.watermark.image .
> > What do I do in DocBook to prevent this show-stopper?
> >
> >
> >
> > For another thing, I get errors like:
> > [ERROR] property - "background-position-horizontal" is not implemented
> yet.
> > [ERROR] property - "background-position-vertical" is not implemented yet.
> > But maybe they go away if I get rid of any background images.
> >
> >
> >
> > Finally (for now), `fop` breaks with:
> > [ERROR] Unknown enumerated value for property 'relative-align': baseline
> > [ERROR] Error in relative-align property value 'baseline':
> > org.apache.fop.fo.expr.PropertyException: No conversion defined
> >
> > In my DocBook XML I never refer to "relative-align" or "baseline",
> > whatever they may be.  What can I do about that?
> >
> > Thanx,
> >
> >
> >
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