Re: XSL FO Validator. Online service.

Subject: Re: XSL FO Validator. Online service.
From: "Paul Tchistopolskii" <paul@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 22:49:32 -0700
 
FO Validator consits of 2 steps.
 
The first step  is to validate FO stream,
notifying user that for example some
attributes reside in a useless
place ( even it is valid to place inheritable
property anywhere, it is not reasonable
for some elements ). Our version of
DTD (published online) now containes
our *very* detailed comments on FO's.
 
The secons step is to invoke our Rendering
Engine in 'Validate-Only' mode ( because
DTD-based way does not allow us to check most of
XSL FO attributes ).
 
It *is* possible to check *some* of the FO attributes
on the first step (  with DTD ), but because we
decided that anyway we'l need to have a second
( AttrParser ) step - we are not using DTD for
such checks, to keep DTD simpler.
 
We are using  FO Validating service when preparing
our FO testcases ( I was just thinking to announce
some more things that are now published at 
www.renderx.com ),  and we found our FO Validator to
be *very* handy.
 
It may be better to say that FO Validator playes the same role
for XSL FOs than 'lint' utility played for C ( well - at
some point C compilers 'killed'   lint, but at the
beginning of C lint was a nice thing ).
 
Rgds.Paul.
 
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: XSL FO Validator. Online service.

Paul - what is a validating DTD?  And what is the DTD validating against?  Shouldn't this refer to some sort of a validating parser?
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Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 2:03 AM
Subject: ANN: XSL FO Validator. Online service.



http://www.renderx.com/products.html

Inspired by thread in XSL-list
( Thread itself is provided).

We are using some kind of validating DTD,
inherited from XSL FO DTD from WD.
( Our version of  DTD is provided).

We appreciate any feedback and we are
working hardly to publish some other
interesting XSL FO-related stuff next 3-4 days.

Rgds.Paul.

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