Re: [css2xslfo-support] Fw: An empty output .fo file with no complaints

[USHAKOV, S. <us...@in...>]

Thanks Werner for the clarification. I agree that XML is a strict stuff that 
requires equally strict approach :)

Still thinking about the newbies, I might propose that maybe not only a 
warning to be issued when 'html' tag is found without a proper namespace, 
but moreover a warning like "No formattable data found" or something similar 
to be issued whenever the output file is going to be empty. This would give 
the user a warm feeling that at least he has no problem with tool 
configuration, and the problem is only in the data supplied... :)

Thanks and best regards,
Sergey



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Werner Donné" <wer...@re...>
To: "USHAKOV, Sergey" <us...@in...>
Cc: <css...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [css2xslfo-support] Fw: An empty output .fo file with no 
complaints


Hi Sergey,

Thank you for the message. In your case the tool is silent because
technically speaking there is no problem. Using XHTML tags without
the XHTML namespace is considered to be another XML language. Since
CSSToXSLFO is intended to work with any XML language it goes through
the document and finds no match, which is legal in CSS. You would
have the same behaviour with an XSLT style sheet for example.

Technically, the built-in User Agent style sheet is written for the
XHTML namespace, which is why nothing matches. If you would write
an alternative User Agent style sheet without a namespace, your document
would work.

Of course, since there is built-in support for XHTML I could write out
a warning when the "html" tag is used without the XHTML namespace,
which is what I will do for the next release.

Best regards,

Werner.

On 16 Oct 2008, at 13:11, USHAKOV, Sergey wrote:

> Hi Werner,
>
> this is a copy of my message for the topic similar to the one being
> discussed now, that recently got bounced from sourceforge mail  server. 
> The
> reason of my problem is evidently different, and it is just a 
> coinncidence
> that two similar subjects got spoken of simultaneously.
>
> The problem is solved for me now, so my message is just for your
> information.
>
> My best regards,
> Sergey
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "USHAKOV, Sergey" <us...@in...>
> To: <css...@li...>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 8:18 AM
> Subject: An empty output .fo file with no complaints
>
>
>> Hi Werner,
>>
>> I have recently come across a case when the output .fo file was  created
>> with zero size, and no complaints were visible.
>>
>> Finally it came out that the namespace identifier of the source  xhtml 
>> file
>> was wrong, and fixing it solved the problem.
>>
>> I am not sure if keeping silence about encountered problems is the
>> intended behavior for your tool :)  so I thought it might be good  to let
>> you know...
>>
>> Thanks and best regards,
>> Sergey
>
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