DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Using fo-patch-for-fop.xsl and question about XHTMLnamespaces

[Norman Walsh <ndw at nwalsh dot com>]

/ Carlos Araya <carlos@cvc.edu> was heard to say:
| I have two more questions after which I believe I can go back to writing.
|
| Is there a way to eliminate the xmlns: declarations from every single
| element on an XHTML file? They are hardcoded into each page and I don't know

What processor are you using? It isn't wrong to have them on every
element, but it also isn't necessary. Saxon, for example, only outputs
one at the top.

| if excluding the XHTML prefix would cause some problem I can't see (the
| problem of generating XHTML files was solved by switching to 1.48 version of
| the style sheets, which caused the next question)

The XHTML namespace name was one of the features that the previous
stylesheets couldn't provide.

| How on earth do I use the fo-patch-for-fop.xsl file? I've searched the
| sourceforge site and have found no information about the patch at all

Urk. Sorry. After you've produced x.fo using the regular stylesheets,
process it with fo-patch-for-fop.xsl to produce x.fop and pass that to
FOP. It's just another stylesheet.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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