[brailleblaster] Re: Space, new-line, and index checking

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 11:00:24 -0500

Keith,

This feature could decrease performance, so I would prefer to make it a 
debugging feature. Finding the number of characters in the text of a 
<brl> node could be a bit complicated. I think lobxml2 has a function 
tor this if UTF-8 is used to represent Unicode Braille.

John

On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 03:50:56PM +0000, Keith Creasy wrote:
> John.
> 
> OK, I don't know if it only needs to be while debugging but that would be OK. 
> Right now we are dealing with just such instances and they should never 
> happen. It'll be easier to fix if we know exactly when and where they are 
> happening since finding them by hand is tedious and unreliable.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Keith Creasy
> Software Developer
> American Printing House for the Blind
> KCreasy@xxxxxxx
> Phone: 502.895.2405
> Skype: keith537
> 
> 
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> 
> Keith,
> 
> I'll have to think about this. It should probably be something that can be 
> turned on with a configuration setting. There is already a debug seting that 
> could be used.
> 
> John
> 
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 01:46:26PM +0000, Keith Creasy wrote:
> > John.
> > 
> > I think we need to be loging an error or warning any time the number of 
> > values in the index attribute does not match the number of braille 
> > characters in the <brl> element. This should never actually happen by 
> > definition, right? Who, what component, can do this? I thought 
> > LibLouisUTDML could put it in the log as an error or warning, not fatal but 
> > if this happens we need to know and try to correct it.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Keith Creasy
> > Software Developer
> > American Printing House for the Blind
> > KCreasy@xxxxxxx
> > Phone: 502.895.2405
> > Skype: keith537
> > 
> 
> --
> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc.
> http://www.abilitiessoft.com
> Madison, Wisconsin USA
> Developing software for people with disabilities
> 
> 

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Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities

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