Re: [docbook-apps] FOP 0.93 Span="inherit" warning

["Colin Shapiro" <cmshapiro@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I'm not sure that this is really anything to worry about.  I just checked the XSL spec out of curiosity, and it doesn't seem to say anything that indicates it is improper to use the "inherit" keyword on the property of an FO object when its parent doesn't have the same property explicitly set.

5.9.10.1 inherit
The property takes the same computed value as the property for the formatting object's parent object.

That's all it really says.  Therefore, I assume that this is just a warning that FOP generates, not necessarily indicating that the FO produced by the DocBook XSL stylesheet is illegal.

If anyone believes otherwise, please correct me.

Colin

On 4/25/07, T.G. Mutato <throw6617@gmail.com > wrote:

I've been using DocBook 4.5, XSL 1.72.0 and FOP 0.93 on Windows and
noticed that whenever I run FOP on my DocBook source, I get the
following:

WARNING: span="inherit" on fo:block, but no explicit value found on
the parent FO.

Here's a simple example that demonstrates the warning:

<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd">
<book>
  <bookinfo>
    <title>My First Book</title>
    <author><firstname>Jane</firstname><surname>Doe</surname></author>
    <copyright><year>1998</year><holder>Jane Doe</holder></copyright>
  </bookinfo>
  <chapter id="chapterone">
    <title id="atitleid">
      <indexterm>
        <primary>a nice index entry</primary>
      </indexterm>
      Here's our Chapter Title
    </title>
    <sect1 id="sectionone">
      <title>
        <indexterm>
          <primary>anothter nice index entry</primary>
        </indexterm>
        Here's our Section Title
      </title>
      <para>
        Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. In
tortor nibh, facilisis ac, consectetuer eget, malesuada
        molestie, augue. Etiam non nibh eget elit tincidunt commodo.
      </para>
    </sect1>
  </chapter>
  <index id="index"/>
</book>

Run the two commands:
xsltproc --output testbook.fo pdfdoc.xsl testbook.xml
fop.bat -fo testbook.fo -pdf testbook.pdf

and you see the Warning output.

The warning doesn't seem to be serious and I am not sure if it is an
issue with the FO stylesheets or with FOP. Is there a good way to turn
off the warning?

Thanks,
tgm

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