- From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 12:23:15 +0200
- To: xsl-editors@w3.org
DaveP and all, I don't see any of your points. I need means to validate XSLFOs, I describe clear usage secnarios and reasons, and I'm talking to the XSL (XSLFI) working group. further comments below. >> Scenario 1. >> I transform some XML via XSLT to XSLFO, then I want to convert it to >> PDF. During the last step the conversion tool (XEP, FOP) >> throws myriads >> of errors at me. Now I need to know if the input document, which is >> nothing than pure XSLFO, is valid; in order to take the appropriate >> steps of either altering my XSLT to generate valid XSLFO, or >> filing bugs >> on the converter. >> >> Scenario 2: >> I author pure XSLFO (which is inflexible, but flexibility is >> not always >> required). So I would like to load a schema/DTD/anything into my >> favourite XML IDE, and start. Without any validation tool it's time >> consuming to look up every single detail of the rules for the >> structure >> of FOs. Also, when I author some XML namespace that comes >> with a DTD, I >> get a choice of all valid possibilities at any given point in the >> document (drop down selections for attribute values etc) >> >> This is why I need XSLFO >validation. > >The latter point is quite clearly outside of the xsl-fo domain, >since they do not expect the fo namespace to be used in an editing >environment. Your use in a learning environment is outside the scope >of the rec surely? I don't see why one shouldn't author XSLFO; but if that's not the intended use of the spec; what do say about scenario 1? >Have you read the comments that Renderx make about the DTD they provide? >It quite specifically states that it is not a complete validation. >I use it, but with that caveat. What's your point here? Sure I've read those comments. The RenderX DTD is not what I want, that's why I ask the W3C for official means to validate pure XSLFO documents. Also: if you use it; for what? You repeatedly question the necessity of validation of XSLFO, but you try to validate XSLFO? >I'm still not sure I see the rationale for W3C to provide such a tool, >particularly for xsl-fo. see scenario one. I would appreciate any comments from the working group. Tobi -- Tobias Reif http://www.pinkjuice.com/myDigitalProfile.xhtml go_to('www.ruby-lang.org').get(ruby).play.create.have_fun
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