Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: xalan c++ chunking problems

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 06:28:03PM +0000, Lisa Carey wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've been using the latest Java version of Xalan to produce my HTML Help
> output using the 1.60.0 stylesheets, and it's currently working fine.
> However, one of my colleagues just tried to use Xalan C++ with the same
> DocBook source and stylesheets, and got a "Don't know how to chunk with.."
> error message from chunker.xsl - it's from the make-relative-filename
> template.  It's the latest version of Xalan C++, 1.4.
> 
> This isn't an enormous problem, in that he can use the Java version instead,
> but has anyone else had similar issues?

Chunking is done with an extension function.  For those
processors that support the EXSLT initiative
(www.exlt.org), they can use the exsl:document()
function.   According to the Xalan C++ website
(http://xml.apache.org/xalan-c/extensionslib.html#exslt),
there is alpha support for that function.  But apparently
this test in the stylesheet fails:

<xsl:when test="element-available('exsl:document')">

So I guess alpha support doesn't cut it yet.  8^)

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