Thank you so much for looking into this and providing such good
explanations.
On the use of just plain xpath and especially the use of the
background-color style, I originally tried that back when I made
XLingPaper work with XXE version 7. We corresponded on how this use of
background-color in a CSS does not appear the same way as it did in XXE
versions 4 and 5. This was on June 29-30, 2016 on this list (the
subject line said, "XXE7: background-color not showing in
element:before"). Unfortunately, it does not provide the result our
users have come to expect.
Thank you again for looking into these issues.
--Andy
On 11/22/2018 2:48 AM, Hussein Shafie wrote:
On 11/21/2018 05:20 PM, Andy Black wrote:
The shorter document is at
https://drive.google.com/open?id=ZZZZ.
Unzip it somewhere.
I'm sorry but this Google Drive file is not public. I am not allowed
access it using my Google account.
Anyway, I've used your large SeriGrammarXML_2017.xml document to
conduct my tests, so don't bother giving me access to ccoGram.
In the CSS of XLingPap 3.3 (newest XLingPap 3.4 not available for XXE
v8+?), I've simply replaced your CSS rule:
---
abbrRef
{
content: drop-down-setReference(abbreviation-background-color())
label(xpath,"if((/xlingpaper/styledPaper/lingPaper|/lingPaper)[string-length(normalize-space(@abbreviationlang))>0]
and
id(@abbr)/abbrInLang[(/xlingpaper/styledPaper/lingPaper|/lingPaper)/@abbreviationlang=@lang]/abbrTerm,id(@abbr)/abbrInLang[(/xlingpaper/styledPaper/lingPaper|/lingPaper)/@abbreviationlang=@lang]/abbrTerm,
id(@abbr)/abbrInLang[1]/abbrTerm)",background-color,abbreviation-background-color());
font-family:
concatenate("'",xpath("if(/xlingpaper/styledPaper/lingPaper/backMatter/abbreviations[string-length(normalize-space(@font-family))>0],/xlingpaper/styledPaper/lingPaper/backMatter/abbreviations/@font-family,/lingPaper/backMatter/abbreviations[string-length(normalize-space(@font-family))>0],/lingPaper/backMatter/abbreviations/@font-family,'inherit')"),"'");
}
---
by:
---
abbrRef
{
content: drop-down-setReference(abbreviation-background-color())
text(xpath,"if((/xlingpaper/styledPaper/lingPaper|/lingPaper)[string-length(normalize-space(@abbreviationlang))>0]
and
id(@abbr)/abbrInLang[(/xlingpaper/styledPaper/lingPaper|/lingPaper)/@abbreviationlang=@lang]/abbrTerm,id(@abbr)/abbrInLang[(/xlingpaper/styledPaper/lingPaper|/lingPaper)/@abbreviationlang=@lang]/abbrTerm,
id(@abbr)/abbrInLang[1]/abbrTerm)",background-color,abbreviation-background-color());
font-family:
concatenate("'",xpath("if(/xlingpaper/styledPaper/lingPaper/backMatter/abbreviations[string-length(normalize-space(@font-family))>0],/xlingpaper/styledPaper/lingPaper/backMatter/abbreviations/@font-family,/lingPaper/backMatter/abbreviations[string-length(normalize-space(@font-family))>0],/lingPaper/backMatter/abbreviations/@font-family,'inherit')"),"'");
}
---
The main file to load is ccoGram in the ccoGram folder.
On my Windows machine, it took about 28 seconds to load using
label(xpath,...for the abbrRef content item in the XLingPap.css file
(it's line 448 in my copy).
Using text(xpath(... took about 3 minutes and 19 seconds.
This slowdown could be caused by scarce Java memory. The Java runtime
could spend all its time in its garbage collector in an attempt to
reclaim unused memory.
Please make sure to always start XXE with a *very* large amount of
Java memory (i.e. -Xmx2048m). See FAQ
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/faq.html#outofmemory
For what it's worth, the abbrRef element is a reference to an
abbreviation master list. Linguistic documents have a convention that
these abbreviations should be in small caps, normally. Most linguistic
documents have a lot of these abbreviations. This document has 6,981 of
them.
Using XXE V8.3alpha (with Java 8 and -Xmx2048m !!!), there was no
noticeable slowdown when using "text(xpath,...)" rather than
"label(xpath,...)".
But yes, after looking at the code, "text(xpath,...)" could be slower
and more memory hungry than "label(xpath,...)" (as they are totally
different objects, managed totally differently).
By the way, when I suggested to replace "label(xpath,...)" by
"xpath(...)", I didn't mean to use "text(xpath,...)":
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/csssupport/text.html
but just "xpath(...)":
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/csssupport/xpath.html
That is, something like:
---
abbrRef
{
content: drop-down-setReference(abbreviation-background-color())
xpath("if((/xlingpaper/styledPaper/lingPaper|/lingPaper)[string-length(normalize-space(@abbreviationlang))>0]
and
id(@abbr)/abbrInLang[(/xlingpaper/styledPaper/lingPaper|/lingPaper)/@abbreviationlang=@lang]/abbrTerm,id(@abbr)/abbrInLang[(/xlingpaper/styledPaper/lingPaper|/lingPaper)/@abbreviationlang=@lang]/abbrTerm,
id(@abbr)/abbrInLang[1]/abbrTerm)");
background-color: abbreviation-background-color();
font-family:
concatenate("'",xpath("if(/xlingpaper/styledPaper/lingPaper/backMatter/abbreviations[string-length(normalize-space(@font-family))>0],/xlingpaper/styledPaper/lingPaper/backMatter/abbreviations/@font-family,/lingPaper/backMatter/abbreviations[string-length(normalize-space(@font-family))>0],/lingPaper/backMatter/abbreviations/@font-family,'inherit')"),"'");
}
---
This is the simplest and therefore, in theory (not 100% sure given the
complexity of your XLingPap.css), could be faster and less memory hungry.
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