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

[Werner D. <wer...@re...>]

Sergey,

I have created feature request 2171585 for this.

Best regards,

Werner.

On 16 Oct 2008, at 14:44, USHAKOV, Sergey wrote:

> 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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