Re: [xmlroff] Problems when invoking xmlroff

[Giuseppe G. <giu...@ag...>]

Tony,


> Can you process xmlroff.fo from the xmlroff distribution?

Yes, I can process it without problems.

> 
>  > I've tried to process a FO file generated with xsltproc:
>  > 
>  > xmlroff -o myfile.pdf myfile.fo
>  > 
>  > ... but xmlroff never returns and at the end my PC simply
>  > goes down...
>  > 
>  > I get a number of error messages like this:
>  > 
>  > (process:1424): libfo-CRITICAL **: fo-fo-error:
>  >   FoMarker not allowed as child of FoBlock
>  > Object path: /FoTree[1]/root[1]/page-sequence[1]/flow[1]/FoBlock[1]
>  >   /FoBlock[1]/FoBlock[1]/FoBlock[1]/FoBlock[1]/FoMarker[1]
>  > 
>  > Does anybody know how to solve this problem?
> 
> The problem is that xmlroff does not yet support markers.
> 
> The partial solution is to park markers in a GList attached to the FO
> containing the marker (and I added an FoMarkerParent type to do this),
> but it hasn't been fully implemented since I've spent my recent time
> getting xmlroff to work with GNOME Print instead of PDFlib.
> 
> The solution to your problem is to implement marker support.
> 
> Please file a bug report or enhancement request on SourForge about
> xmlroff not supporting markers.

OK, I'll do that...

> 
> Ways to get around the lack of marker support include:
> 
>  - Don't generate them
> 
>  - Write a stylesheet to filter them out of your .fo files
> 
>  - Work on marker support yourself
> 
> In the interim, since xmlroff doesn't support markers, I regret that
> your output would not look as you expect anyway.

The problem is that I use the DocBook stylesheets, and customize them
is not so trivial...

Do you think xmlroff will be distributed as the standard FO processor
with GNOME just like xsltproc?

Gius_.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Tony Graham
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