- From: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 16:41:30 +0000
- To: Tony Graham <Tony.Graham@menteithconsulting.com>
- Cc: www-xsl-fo@w3.org
On 6 December 2010 16:07, Tony Graham <Tony.Graham@menteithconsulting.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 05 2010 16:03:53 +0000, dave.pawson@gmail.com wrote: > ... >> Re the parameter entities. >> 6.2 defines them textually, but there is no xml definition of them? >> >> That would be a nice addition for automated processing. >> Either as XML for an inclusion or as xml entities. > > It was perhaps a bit odd to call them "parameter entities" without > providing declarations, but the concept and the reference syntax is > familiar to many users of XML. > > Also, there is no official schema or DTD for XSL 1.1, so I'd say there > wasn't much reason to put in the declarations when there was no schema. Just to aid processing of the rec through to other usable forms. > > FWIW, RenderX has three goes at a XSL FO schema or validators at > http://www.renderx.com/tools/validators.html. Their XML Europe 2004 > paper [1] referred to from that page has a good summary of the issues > you face in making a schema for XSL FO (and of the trade-offs they had > to make). Like Dave, they favour having multiple, looser and stricter > schema for XSL FO. And they stopped at 1.0? Nothing available for 1.1 at all. Despite (IMHO) its usefulness. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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