Re: [xmlroff] stack overflow ?

[Stefan S. <se...@sy...>]

Tony Graham wrote:
> Stefan Seefeld <se...@sy...> writes:

>>and then seg faulted. The debugger revealed that (if my interpretation
>>is correct) the crash is due to a stack overlow that stems from
>>an infinite recursion:
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> xmlroff can't split an area.
> 
> It should just render the area as best it can, but obviously it doesn't do
> that yet.

I see.

>>PS: What does it take for xmlroff to fetch an external graphics' size from
>>    the graphic itself, instead of requiring it to be provided in the xml input ?
> 
> 
> The next version of xmlroff.

Great, can't wait to try it ! Though I still need to sort out how to work around
the area split problem, since the input was generated from stock docbook fo
stylesheets even with libfo-compat.xsl filtering.

Thanks,
		Stefan