Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Using fo-patch-for-fop.xsl and question aboutXHTML namespaces

[Carlos Araya <carlos@cvc.edu>]

On 01/09/02 5:16, "Norman Walsh" <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:

> / Carlos Araya <carlos@cvc.edu> was heard to say:
> | I have two more questions after which I believe I can go back to writing.
> |
> | Is there a way to eliminate the xmlns: declarations from every single
> | element on an XHTML file? They are hardcoded into each page and I don't know
> 
> What processor are you using? It isn't wrong to have them on every
> element, but it also isn't necessary. Saxon, for example, only outputs
> one at the top.
I am using XSLTProc. I don't have a problem with leaving the namespace on
every element, it's just that it's extra text being downloaded that doesn't
need to be IMO.

> 
> | if excluding the XHTML prefix would cause some problem I can't see (the
> | problem of generating XHTML files was solved by switching to 1.48 version of
> | the style sheets, which caused the next question)
> 
> The XHTML namespace name was one of the features that the previous
> stylesheets couldn't provide.
> 
> | How on earth do I use the fo-patch-for-fop.xsl file? I've searched the
> | sourceforge site and have found no information about the patch at all
> 
> Urk. Sorry. After you've produced x.fo using the regular stylesheets,
> process it with fo-patch-for-fop.xsl to produce x.fop and pass that to
> FOP. It's just another stylesheet.
Thanks, it works



> 
>                                       Be seeing you,
>                                         norm

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