RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Trouble with transforming XML to PDF

[Ariel Anderson <Ariel dot Anderson at ceb dot ucop dot edu>]

Thanks a mil!  I will try "downgrading."  

I looked for this issue in the archive before posting, but I guess my search
didn't catch your previous posting - sorry to clutter the airwaves,

-Ariel

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Matthew Braun [SMTP:mbraun@urbana.css.mot.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 13, 2001 3:16 PM
> To:	Ariel Anderson
> Cc:	docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject:	Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Trouble with transforming XML to PDF 
> 
> 
> Ariel Anderson <Ariel.Anderson@ceb.ucop.edu> writes:
> 
> >I get the following warning (repeated several times) and error:
> >
> >	WARNING: property 'master-reference' ignored (this is repeated
> >several times)
> >	ERROR: org.apache.fop.apps.FOPException: 'master-name' for
> >'fo:page-sequence' matches no 'simple-page-master' or
> 'page-sequence-master'
> 
> (I ran into this about two weeks ago, and posted.)  The problem is that
> version 1.47 of the stylesheets and FOP don't get along well.  FOP is
> based
> on an older version of the XSL-FO spec.  However other tools FO-renderers
> support more up-to-date versions of the spec.  Now the stylesheets should
> and are follow the tools' capabilites.  Unfortunately for FOP users, this
> means that we're stuck with 1.46, until it is upgraded to a later version
> of the spec.  (Norm indicated that the FOP folks said "in a few months").
> 
> If you "downgrade" to version 1.46 of the stylesheets, your problem should
> go away.  Norm Walsh had talked about writing a stylesheet which would
> transform 1.47 output into something that FOP could handle, but I don't
> know if he ever got around to doing it.  (I'm running with 1.46 until I
> have time to look at it.)
> 
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