Re: FO preprocessor

jordibuj@badalona.vilaweb.com wrote:
> I'm writing some kind of "merge" preprocessor for a FO 
> document.
> The FO document would contain XML tags from a new namespace 
> (the mrg namespace) melted with the actual content.
> The merge preprocessor would generate a new FO document 
> with FO tags and content untouched but would process mrg 

Is the FO coming from some outside source? Normally I would expect this 
type of processing to happen at the time the FO is produced, rather than 
as a separate processing step. But there's nothing wrong in principle 
with pre-processing the FO document any way you need to. for example, 
Ken Holman has suggested that approach as a way to implement certain FO 
extensions that act as "macros" that can be expanded to standard FO 
practice or to implementation-specific extensions.

Cheers,

Eliot
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Received on Tuesday, 29 October 2002 11:28:56 UTC