Anders Berglund | 6 May 2005 21:27
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Re: max-height, etc


Thank-you for pointing out these deficiencies in the draft.

I have copied the appropriate text from the "fuller" property
descriptions to the other definitions.

Regarding the "auto" value; this is a CSS2 error, which has been
corrected in the CSS2.1 CR draft to be "0" when used for "min-height"
and "none" when used for "max-height". The XSL spec will be updated
accordingly.

Anders

>The editors,
>
>In the draft version of XSL 1.1 (2004-12-16) the property definition for
>  7.14.8 "max-height" contains
><quote>
>Value: <length> | <percentage> | none | inherit
>...
>Percentages: refer to height of containing block
></quote>
>
>The discussion of <percentage> has
><quote>
>Specifies a percentage for determining the computed value. The
>percentage is calculated with respect to the height of the generated
>box's containing block. If the height of the containing block is not
>specified explicitly (i.e., it depends on content height), the
>percentage value is interpreted like "auto".
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Anders Berglund | 6 May 2005 21:29
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Re: xsl-before-float-separator & xsl-footnote-separator


The 1.0 behaviour has been "reinstated" by restricting the sources in
a flow-assignment to be either all fo:flows or all fo:static-content.
This restriction was inadvertently left out when writing up
multiple flows.

Anders

>The editors,
>
>The behaviour of the above classes of static-content in the draft 1.1
>Recommendation of 16 December 2004 has not changed, as far as I could
>see, from the 1.0 Recommendation.
>
>There are some problems that are peculiar to these flows.  In XSL 1.0,
>the combination of implicit flow-map, uniqueness of region-name within a
>simple-page-master and the uniqueness of flow-names guarantees, if I am
>not mistaken, that any given region on a given page will be the target
>of at most one flow, be it fo:flow or fo:static-content.  In combination
>with the method of determining the dimensions of the region-body and the
>extents of the "border" regions, this ensures that the layout available
>to the fo:flow does not have to be adjusted depending on the contents of
>any fo:static-region.
>
>If retrieve-markers occurs in xsl-footnote-separator or
>xsl-before-float-separator, however, they directly impact the space
>available for the layout of fo:flow.
>
>This situation is different from that pertaining to
>fo:retrieve-table-marker, which more closely parallels the treatment of
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Anders Berglund | 6 May 2005 21:29
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Re: <padding-width>


According to the defintion of the "reference-orientation" property
it establishes which edge is "top" "left" "bottom" and "right" of the
content rectangle.

In 5.3.3 "Height and Width properties" is stated:

The "height" properties are absolute and indicate the dimension from "top"
to "bottom"; the width properties the dimension from "left" to "right".

Thus "width" is dependent on the reference-orientation.

Anders

>(My apologies if this has been sent twice.)
>The editors,
>
>Following on from my earlier discussion on this topic is a question as
>to the reference dimension for a percentage on the relative padding
>properties, when the closest ancestor block-area not a line-area has a
>different writing-mode or reference-orientation. All of the definitions
>of percentage on padding-* relative properties refer to the "width" of
>the containing block.
>
>This presumably accounts for differences of writing-mode, as "width" is
>absolute.  What about differences of reference-orientation?  Is the
>"width" the absolute width in the parent's orientation?
>
>A similar question can be asked in respect of the margin-* absolute
>properties.
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Klaas_Bals | 11 May 2005 13:56

Re: 5.3.2 Margin, Space, and Indent Properties



> It seems to me now that the indent must be "reset" on
> such FOs, and reset according to the computed margin, border and padding
> properties, so that the descendants of the FO have a "clean slate"
> against which to express or calculate their accumulating indents.

Peter,

Thank you for you feedback.

Previous comments about this topic of inheritance of start-indent were already sent in the past. For example see http://www.w3.org/2001/08/28-XSL-PR-DOC , comment 20, item 3.

For the same reasons as explained in comment 20 item 3, the XSL-FO SG has decided not to change anything to the existing inheritance rules.

Klaas Bals

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CIS05 CIS05 | 16 May 2005 06:53
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Re: Ask help to announce the conference: CIS'05...


Dear Sir/Madam,
   Could you help announce the following conference? Many thanks!

Best regards,
Secretariate of CIS05

=====================================================================================================
Call for Papers

2005 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security
(CIS'2005)

Co-organized by IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter and Xidian
University, China

Co-sponsored by IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter, Hong Kong
Baptist University, Xidian University, and Guangdong University of Technology

December 15-19, 2005, Xi'an, China

URL: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~cis05

(Paper Submission Due date: July 31, 2005)
=====================================================================================================

International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS) is an
annual international conference to bring together researchers, engineers,
developers and practitioners from academia and industry to share the experience,
and exchange and cross-fertilize ideas on all areas of computational
intelligence and information security. This conference serves as a forum for the
dissemination of state-of-the-art research, development, and implementations of
systems, technologies and applications in these two broad fields. CIS is
co-sponsored by IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter, Hong Kong
Baptist University, Xidian University, and Guangdong University of Technology.

The technical areas include, but are not limited to:

Computational Intelligence
--------------------------

- Artificial Immune Systems
- Autonomy-Oriented Computing
- Biological Computing
- Coevolutionary Algorithms
- Evolutionary Computation
- Fuzzy Systems
- Intelligent Agents and Systems
- Machine Learning
- Molecular Computing
- Neural Computing
- Probabilistic Reasoning
- Reinforcement Learning
- Swarm Intelligence
- Support Vector Machine
- Unsupervised Learning

Information Security
----------------------

- Cryptography and Coding
- Cryptographic Protocols
- Detection of Abnormality
- Electronic Commerce Security
- Intrusion Detection
- Information, Data and System Integrity
- Information Hiding
- Information Security Management
- Information Storage and Retrieval System
- Mobile Code & Agent Security
- Media Data Authentication
- Security Models and Architectures
- Security Analysis Methodologies
- Steganography and Watermarking
- Web and Wireless Security

Applications
--------------------------

- Bioinformatics and Medical Diagnosis
- Copyright Protection
- Cryptography and Its Applications
- Data Mining
- Data Privacy
- Detection of Hidden Communication Channels
- Digital Signatures
- Electronic Commerce Security
- Identity Recognition
- Image and Signal Processing
- Intelligent Information Retrieval
- Pattern Recognition
- Web and Network Applications
- Other Applications

Important Dates
-------------------

Submission of Papers:         July 31, 2005
Notification of Acceptance:   September 1, 2005
Final Camera-Ready Papers:    September 25, 2005

Paper Submission and Publication
---------------------------------

Prospective authors are invited to submit high-quality manuscripts written in
English. The submission of a paper implies that the paper is original and has
not been submitted to elsewhere for possible publication. All submissions will
be peer-reviewed by experts in the field based on originality, significance,
quality and clarity. Authors should use the Latex style files or MS-Word
templates provided by the Spring Lecture Notes to format their papers. The
length of a submitted paper should not exceed 10 pages in the Lecture Notes
format. All accepted papers will be appeared in the conference proceedings,
published by Springer as ** Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
**(http://www.springeronline.com/lncs) that are indexed by SCI-Expanded.
Furthermore, selected papers will be considered for publication in an
international journal, after expansion and/or revision.

Authors should submit a soft copy of their manuscripts with the pdf format only
to the conference via the online submission system. For more details, please
visit the conference web site at: http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~cis05.

General Co-Chairs:

Yue Hao          China
Jiming Liu       Hong Kong

Program Committee Co-Chairs:

Yiu-ming Cheung  Hong Kong
Licheng Jiao     China
Yuping Wang      China
Hujun Yin        UK

Organizing Committee:

Jianfeng Ma      Chair
Yongchang Jiao   Vice Co-Chair
Hailin Liu       Tutorial Chair
Yibo Hu          Treasurer
Lixia Han        Publicity Chair
Liang Ming       Registration Chair
Yuanyuan Zuo     Local Arrangement Chair
Shuguang Zhao    Publication Chair
Kapluk Chan      Asia Liaison
Yan Wu           Secretary
Jingxuan Wei     Secretary
Rongzu Yu        Secretary

Further Information
-----------------------

Any enquiry and comment please contact the Secretariat of CIS-05:

Secretariat of CIS-05
Department of Computer Science,
7/F, Sir Run Run Shaw Building,
Hong Kong Baptist University,
Kowloon Tong,
Hong Kong
Email: cis05 <at> comp.hkbu.edu.hk

ICDM | 19 May 2005 08:51

Final CFP : IEEE ICDM'05


[Apologies if you receive this more than once]

==================================================================
Final Call for Papers

ICDM '05: The 5th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
27-30 November 2005

http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~icdm05/

(Papers Due: 15 June 2005)
===================================================================

The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM '05)
provides a premier forum for the dissemination of innovative,
practical development experiences as well as original research results
in data mining, spanning applications, algorithms, software and
systems. The conference draws researchers and application developers
from a wide range of data mining related areas such as statistics,
machine learning, pattern recognition, databases and data warehousing,
data visualization, knowledge-based systems and high performance
computing. By promoting high quality and novel research findings, and
innovative solutions to challenging data mining problems, the
conference seeks to continuously advance the state of the art in data
mining. As an important part of the conference, the workshops program
will focus on new research challenges and initiatives, and the
tutorials program will cover emerging data mining technologies and the
latest developments in data mining.

Topics of Interest
------------------

Topics related to the design, analysis and implementation of data
mining theory, systems and applications are of interest. These
include, but are not limited to the following areas:

   * Foundations of data mining
   * Data mining and machine learning algorithms and methods in traditional
     areas (such as classification, regression, clustering, probabilistic
     modeling, and association analysis), and in new areas
   * Mining text and semi-structured data, and mining temporal, spatial and
     multimedia data
   * Mining data streams
   * Pattern recognition and trend analysis
   * Collaborative filtering/personalization
   * Data and knowledge representation for data mining
   * Query languages and user interfaces for mining
   * Complexity, efficiency, and scalability issues in data mining
   * Data pre-processing, data reduction, feature selection and feature
     transformation
   * Post-processing of data mining results
   * Statistics and probability in large-scale data mining
   * Soft computing (including neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary
     computation, and rough sets) and uncertainty management for data mining
   * Integration of data warehousing, OLAP and data mining
   * Human-machine interaction and visual data mining
   * High performance and parallel/distributed data mining
   * Quality assessment and interestingness metrics of data mining results
   * Security, privacy and social impact of data mining
   * Data mining applications in bioinformatics, electronic commerce, Web,
     intrusion detection, finance, marketing, healthcare, telecommunications
     and other fields

Conference Publications and ICDM Best Paper Awards
--------------------------------------------------

High quality papers in all data mining areas are solicited. Original
papers exploring new directions will receive especially careful and
supportive reviews. Papers that have already been accepted or are
currently under review at other conferences or journals will not be
considered for publication at ICDM '05.

Paper submissions should be limited to a maximum of 8 pages in the
IEEE 2-column format (see the IEEE Computer Society Press Proceedings
Author Guidelines at http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm),
and will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of
technical quality, relevance to data mining, originality,
significance, and clarity. Please use the Submission Form on the ICDM
'05 website to submit your paper.  Accepted papers will be published
in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

A selected number of IEEE ICDM '05 accepted papers will be invited for
possible inclusion, in an expanded and revised form, in the Knowledge
and Information Systems journal (http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~kais/)
published by Springer-Verlag.

IEEE ICDM Best Paper Awards will be conferred at the conference on the
authors of (1) the best research paper and (2) the best application
paper.  Application-oriented submissions will be considered for the
best application paper award.

Important Dates
---------------

       June 15, 2005  Paper submissions
                      Tutorial proposals
                      Workshop proposals
                      Panel proposals

     August 20, 2005  Paper acceptance notices
   September 7, 2005  Final camera-readies
   November 27, 2005  Tutorials and Workshops
November 28-30, 2005  Conference

All paper submissions will be handled electronically. Detailed
instructions are provided on the conference home page at
http://www.cacs.louisiana.edu/~icdm05

Conference Co-Chairs:

   *  Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA
      (raghavan <at> cacs.louisiana.edu)
   *  Rajeev Rastogi, Bell Laboratories, Lucent, USA
      (rastogi <at> research.bell-labs.com)

Program Committee Chairs:

   * Jaiwei Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
     (hanj <at> cs.uiuc.edu)
   * Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
     (wah <at> uiuc.edu)

Program Committee Vice-Chairs:

   * Daniel Barbara, George Mason University, USA
   * Tamraparni Dasu, AT&T Research, USA
   * Inderjit Dhillon, University of Texas, USA
   * Venkatesh Ganti, Microsoft Research, USA
   * Bart Goethals, University of Antwerp, Belgium
   * Dimitris Gunopulos, University of California, Riverside, USA
   * George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA
   * Hillol Kargupta, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
   * S. Muthu Muthukrishnan, Rutgers University, USA
   * Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy
   * Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada
   * Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
   * Sunita Sarawagi, IIT-Bombay, India
   * Arno Siebes, Utrecht University, Netherlands
   * Jeffrey X. Yu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Panels Chair/Co-Chair

   * Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA
     (giles <at> ist.psu.edu)
   * Gary Flake, Yahoo Research Labs, USA
     (flakeg <at> yahoo-inc.com)

Publicity Chairs

   * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan
     (zhong <at> maebashi-it.ac.jp)
   * Zonghuan Wu, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA
     (zwu <at> cacs.louisiana.edu)

Proceedings Chair

   * Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA
     (xwu <at> emba.uvm.edu)

Registrations Chair/Co-chair

   * Elizabeth Diaz, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA
     (elidiaz <at> bellsouth.net)
   * Ying Xie, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA
     (yxx2098 <at> cacs.louisiana.edu)

Workshops Chair

   * Pawan Lingras, Saint Mary's University, Canada
     (pawan <at> cs.stmarys.ca)

Tutorials Chair

   * Haesun Park, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
     (hpark <at> cs.umn.edu)

Budget Manager

   * Biren Shah, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA
     (bshah <at> cacs.louisiana.edu)

Local Arrangements Chair/Co-chairs

   * Elizabeth Diaz, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA
     (elidiaz <at> bellsouth.net)
   * Anna Robin, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA
     (arobin <at> centurytel.net)
   * Anca Doloc-Mihu, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA
     (anca <at> louisiana.edu)

ICDM Steering Committee

   * Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth (UK)
   * Nick Cercone, Dalhousie University (Canada)
   * Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, University of Melbourne (Australia)
   * Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota (USA)
   * Katharina Morik, University of Dortmund (Germany)
   * Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, KDnuggets (USA)
   * Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (USA)
   * Xindong Wu (Chair), University of Vermont (USA)
   * Philip S. Yu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (USA)
   * Ning Zhong, Maebashi Institute of Technology (Japan)

Further Information

Vijay Raghavan
University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA

Phone: 337-482-6603
Fax: 337-482-5791
E-mail: raghavan <at> cacs.louisiana.edu

david_marston | 27 May 2005 18:11
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Request for XSLT 1.0 erratum on stylesheet processing model


In the XSLT 1.0 Recommendation, Chapter 3 ("Data Model") begins by saying:
" Processing instructions and comments in the stylesheet are ignored: the stylesheet is treated as if neither processing instruction nodes nor comment nodes were included in the tree that represents the stylesheet."
and further down in 3.4 it says
"After the tree for a source document or stylesheet document has been constructed, but before it is otherwise processed by XSLT, some text nodes are stripped...."
This does not explicitly state the sequence between comment/PI stripping and whitespace-text-node stripping in the stylesheet. The test case is:
<xsl:template match="x">
    <lre>text<!-- boo -->     </lre>
</xsl:template>
and I think your intent, as is very clear for 2.0, is that this template should construct
<lre>text     </lre>
rather than
<lre>text</lre>
but "ignoring" the comment node could be construed as the same operation as "stripping" a node. I have recently become aware of a well-known XSLT processor that treats the two stripping/ignoring operations as occurring at the same time and produces the second result shown above.

Please issue an erratum that will make the 1.0 spec as explicit as drafts of the 2.0 spec have been.
.................David Marston, IBM Research
Michael Kay | 27 May 2005 18:26
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RE: Request for XSLT 1.0 erratum on stylesheet processing model

I personally think that the two sentences, taken together, can only be read one way:
 
 Processing instructions and comments in the stylesheet are ignored: the stylesheet is treated as if neither processing instruction nodes nor comment nodes were included in the tree.
 
After the tree for a source document or stylesheet document has been constructed, but before it is otherwise processed by XSLT, some text nodes are stripped.
 
I also think there's not much to be gained by issuing this kind of clarification 5½ years after publishing a spec. I don't think vendors are suddenly going to fix their implementations, and even if they do so, users won't suddenly install the new version. At this stage of the game, vendors are likely to decide that incompatibility with their own previous releases is going to cause more trouble than incompatibility with other vendors. Given the much bigger interoperability problems that arise from differences in handling of whitespace in source documents, it's not even clear that it's worth fixing.
 
Michael Kay (personal response).
 
 

From: xsl-editors-request <at> w3.org [mailto:xsl-editors-request <at> w3.org] On Behalf Of david_marston <at> us.ibm.com
Sent: 27 May 2005 17:12
To: xsl-editors <at> w3.org
Subject: Request for XSLT 1.0 erratum on stylesheet processing model


In the XSLT 1.0 Recommendation, Chapter 3 ("Data Model") begins by saying:
" Processing instructions and comments in the stylesheet are ignored: the stylesheet is treated as if neither processing instruction nodes nor comment nodes were included in the tree that represents the stylesheet."
and further down in 3.4 it says
"After the tree for a source document or stylesheet document has been constructed, but before it is otherwise processed by XSLT, some text nodes are stripped...."
This does not explicitly state the sequence between comment/PI stripping and whitespace-text-node stripping in the stylesheet. The test case is:
<xsl:template match="x">
    <lre>text<!-- boo -->     </lre>
</xsl:template>
and I think your intent, as is very clear for 2.0, is that this template should construct
<lre>text     </lre>
rather than
<lre>text</lre>
but "ignoring" the comment node could be construed as the same operation as "stripping" a node. I have recently become aware of a well-known XSLT processor that treats the two stripping/ignoring operations as occurring at the same time and produces the second result shown above.

Please issue an erratum that will make the 1.0 spec as explicit as drafts of the 2.0 spec have been.
.................David Marston, IBM Research

Gmane