Re: Xalan Encoding Problems - RETRACTION

Hello Raul,

sorry, but I must disappoint you, but it's working for me with the current
Xerces version 1.4.3

But then ... I get only one vertical line too. I tested and searched and
tested and searched the stylesheets. At the end I can say, there is a bug in
Xalan. It's in the file barcode-EAN-logic.xsl. The value of $code-type (e.g.
'EAN-13') gets lost from the line 280 to the line 550. The value in my
testcase was '70' and not more 'EAN-13'. But that's the value of
$real-height in line 161 ('EAN-13' uses the value of <xsl:otherwise> at this
point). Changing it gives a new value to $code-type.

These are the template calling code-snippets:

<xsl:call-template name="......">

    <!-- Get the bar/space width pattern -->
    <xsl:with-param name="bar-and-space-widths">
      <xsl:call-template name="get-bar-space-width">
        <xsl:with-param name="value" select="$value"/>
        <xsl:with-param name="code-type" select="$code-type"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:with-param>

    <!-- Get the bar height pattern -->
    <xsl:with-param name="bar-heights">
      <xsl:call-template name="get-bar-height">
        <xsl:with-param name="code-type" select="$code-type"/>
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:with-param>

</xsl:call-template>

In the first template the $code-type 'arrives' correctly, in the second one
it has the new value. More curios: Replacing the 2 <xsl:call-templates> by
each other shows, that still the first called template gets the correct
value, the second one not.

Because of this bug you are constrained to use another transformer than
Xalan. I will post this bug at Apache bugserver.

Joerg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Raul Rodriguez" <raulnyc@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 10:06 PM
Subject: Re:  Xalan Encoding Problems - RETRACTION


>
> OK, I need to retract what I last posted:  it looks like using an older
> Xerces does NOT TOTALLY work.
>
> Here is what I am doing:
>
> I am using Xalan to transform an XML document into an FO object.  I am
> importing a stylesheet that is encoded in ISO-8859-1, which I got from
> http://www.renderx.com and allows me to add a barcode to my FO object.  I
> then use RenderX XEP renderer to render the FO document into PDF.
>
> When I use the latest Xerces JAR file, Xalan dies complaining that it
cannot
> process ISO-8859-1 encoding.  I reverted to an older version of Xerces and
> it worked fine.  However, rendering my FO using RenderX show a barcode
that
> looked horrible.  All of the vertical lines, except one, was missing.
>
> Using the lastest version of Saxon worked perfectly and it looks like I am
> force to abandon Xalan for the time being.
>
> If you wish to test this yourself, download the sample XSL and XML files
at
> http://www.renderx.com/barcodes.html and prove that I am crazy.
>
> Thanks
>
> Raul Rodriguez
> New York City



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