Getting Involved with xmlroff
The short answer is that we could use whatever help you are able to provide.
You could help with:
- Running the testsuite
- Submitting bug reports
- Submitting patches
- Perl programming
- C programming
- XSLT stylesheets
- Documentation
- Autotools wizardry
- Java
Many of the tickets have keywords for the skills they require. The following sections list those tickets with keywords, but you are always welcome to work on any ticket.
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Tickets without any keywords most commonly involve C.
- #5
- Implement headers and footers
- #10
- Make xmlroff executable default to Cairo backend
- #29
- Lists have whitespace at bottom
- #31
- Expression evaluation errors should indicate the property name
- #50
- FO_EXPR_ERROR_EXTRA_EXPR, etc., should report property name
- #53
- fo_xslt_transformer_do_transform() shouldn't free its stylesheet_doc argument
- #55
- _validate_content() is not implemented for every FO
- #56
- Make common _debug_dump_properties for FOs with no properties.
- #57
- Need to free environments created in fo_table_base_class_init()
- #58
- FoPropertyFontStretch, etc., should use enums from fo-enum.c
- #69
- Too verbose when an image is not found
- #77
- Forward references don't work
- #85
- Should fail gracefully, not abort, when can't find input
- #110
- table-layout="fixed" should work without needing fo:table-column
- #117
- Segmentation fault if input is not XML-FO
- #121
- 'scaling' is ignored when only one of 'content-height' and 'content-width'
Documentation [Search]
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- #15
- Standalone webserver for viewing and updating test results
XSLT [Search]
- #13
- Stylesheet for cutting down NIST and other public testsuites
- #32
- Implement hierarchy of test results
- #46
- Add separate CSS file for styles for reports
- #47
- Simplify templates for nested testcases
- #48
- Add attribute to indicate when a test is expected to fail
- #59
- Texinfo-XML-to-FO stylesheet
- #74
- libfo-compat.xsl is not fixing tables correctly
- #118
- No output doesn't count as a difference
