DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.58.1 released

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

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/ Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> was heard to say:
| On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 07:32:55AM -0500, Norman Walsh wrote:
|>    The 1.58.1 release adds some initial support for extensions in
|>    xsltproc, adds a few features, and fixes bugs.
|> 
|>      o This release contains the first attempt at extension support for
|>        xsltproc. The only extension available to date is the one that adjusts
|>        table column widths. Run extensions/xsltproc/python/xslt.py.
|
|   Hi Norm,
|
|  I had a look at it, more specifically to docbook.py which contains the 
| implementation of the extension functions. I am tempted to simply convert
| that to C as part of libexslt, but there is that big warning in the README
| saying it doesn't work... hum depending on *what* doesn't work it may or may
| not make sense to do that conversion. Any hint on the exact part where
| the problem is ?

Actually, I think that one does work, but there are three or four much
more substantial functions to be written (and I'm sure there will be
versions of docbook.py that don't work in the process ;-).

When I've got them all done, I'll let you know and you can think about
turning them into C.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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