RE: modular docbook stylesheets speedup tips?

Subject: RE: modular docbook stylesheets speedup tips?
From: "Frank A. Christoph" <christo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:03:57 +0900
>I've found one possible problem.  The code in common/dbtable.dsl
>uses the horrifying construction
>
>  ... (descendants (sgml-root-element)) ...
...
>
>Why did I do this?  Because the CALS Table spec says that
>COLSPEC and SPANSPEC are inherited from _preceding_ tables. So
>the stylesheet attempts to find all of them.


Are you serious?  That is a ridiculous---not to mention dangerous and
counterintuitive---requirement, and no one could blame you for breaking the
rules on that count.

--FC



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