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authorWilliam Victor Mote <vmote@apache.org>2003-04-24 17:48:27 +0000
committerWilliam Victor Mote <vmote@apache.org>2003-04-24 17:48:27 +0000
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Normalize common contents between dev/extensions.xml and design/parsing.xml.
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xmlgraphics/fop/trunk@196340 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
-rw-r--r--src/documentation/content/xdocs/design/parsing.xml12
-rw-r--r--src/documentation/content/xdocs/dev/extensions.xml9
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/design/parsing.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/design/parsing.xml
index 38802b463..396a1a263 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/design/parsing.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/design/parsing.xml
@@ -29,17 +29,13 @@ Instead, FOP takes SAX events and builds its own tree-like structure. Why?</p>
<title>Validation</title>
<p>If the input XML is not well-formed, that will be reported.</p>
<p>There is no DTD for XSL-FO, so no formal validation is possible at the parser level.</p>
- <p>The SAX handler will report an error for unrecognized namespaces.</p>
+ <p>The SAX handler will report an error for unrecognized <link href="#namespaces">namespaces</link>.</p>
</section>
<section id="namespaces">
<title>Namespaces</title>
- <p>The element mapping is a hashmap of all the elements in a particular namespace.
-This makes it easy to create a different object for each element.
-Element mappings are static to save on memory.</p>
- <p>To add an extension a developer can put in the classpath a jar that contains the file <code>/META-INF/services/org.apache.fop.fo.ElementMapping</code>.
-This must contain a line with the fully qualified name of a class that implements the <em>org.apache.fop.fo.ElementMapping</em> interface.
-This will then be loaded automatically at the start.
-Internal mappings are: FO, SVG and Extension (pdf bookmarks).</p>
+ <p>To allow for extensions to the XSL-FO language, FOP provides a mechanism for handling foreign namespaces.</p>
+ <p>See <link href="../extensions.html">User Extensions</link> for a discussion of standard extensions shipped with FOP, and their related namespaces.</p>
+ <p>See <link href="../dev/extenstions.html">Developer Extensions</link> for a discussion of the mechanisms in place to allow developers to add their own extensions, including how to tell FOP about the foreign namespace.</p>
</section>
<section>
<title>Tree Building</title>
diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/dev/extensions.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/dev/extensions.xml
index 9c77e53a8..ef458ef7e 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/dev/extensions.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/dev/extensions.xml
@@ -29,10 +29,11 @@ To add your own extension you need to do the following things.
<ol>
<li>Write code that implements your extension functionality. The easiest place to
start is by looking at the code in org.apache.fop.extension, and by looking at the examples in the <code>contrib</code> directory.</li>
- <li>Create a jar file with your classes, it must also include the following file
-"/META-INF/services/org.apache.fop.fo.ElementMapping". In this file you need
-to put the fully qualified classname of your element mappings class. This
-class must implement the "org.apache.fop.fo.ElementMapping" interface.</li>
+ <li>Create a class that implements the org.apache.fop.fo.ElementMapping interface. ElementMapping is a hashmap of all of the elements in a particular namespace, which makes it easier for FOP to create a different object for each element.
+ElementMapping objects are static to save on memory.
+They are loaded by FOP when parsing starts to validate input.</li>
+ <li>Create the following file: "/META-INF/services/org.apache.fop.fo.ElementMapping", which should contain the fully qualified classname of your ElementMapping implementation class.</li>
+ <li>Create a jar file containing all of the above files.</li>
<li>Create your XSL-FO file with the extra XML data embedded in the file with the
correct name space.
The examples for SVG and pdfoutline.fo show how this can be done.