Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: <procedure> - Getting Extra Line in <step>

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 05:24:19PM +1100, Sean Wheller wrote:
> On Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:28:08 -0600, "Thacker, Brad" 
> <Brad_Thacker@jdedwards.com> wrote:
> From my experience, this appears to be a bug in the xsl stylesheets. I've
> >seen this problem for over a year, and I've upgraded through three versions
> >of docbook-xsl (I'm currently at 1.49). I was able to fix the problem by
> >adding the following template to my customization layer:
> >
> >
> ><xsl:template match="step/para[1]">
> >                <fo:block>
> >                        <xsl:apply-templates/>
> >                </fo:block>
> ></xsl:template>
> 
> I don't know if the solution Brad posted, works or if any other patch was 
> posted, so if somebody knows of a solution to this problem other than that 
> posted by Brad please let me know.
> 
> I have added Brads template suggestion to my customization layer, but when 
> performing the transform from DocBook XML > FOP I get the following error:
> 
> F org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The prefix "fo" for element "fo:block" is not 
> bound.
> 
> I use the oXygen XML Editor for my editing. As I don't understand XSL-FO I am 
> not able to dig into the problem myself. Hope somebody can help.

This is just a namespace problem.  Look at the top
of the fo/docbook.xsl distribution file and
you will see how the fo: namespace is declared,
and copy that to your customization layer.

Has someone file a sourceforge bug report on this
problem?  

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