Re: [xsl] A4, A3 or Letter layout-master-set

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2002-04-29 15:36 +0100, Simpson, George wrote:
> My question is regarding the page width settings and margins in our XSL 
> Style sheet, would I have to create a
> style sheet for each of the possible print outs (A4, A3 & Letter) or is 
> there a much simpler way of approaching
> this, where we would only have one style sheet but with multiple 
> layout-master-set/s?

The latter ... you can create the bunch of page masters that you need, and 
then in your XSLT where you create the result <page-sequence> you could use 
an attribute value template to determine from passed parameters which 
sequence you would want:

  <xsl:param name="page-type" select="'A4'"/>
  ...
  <simple-page-master master-name="pages-A4" .../>
  <simple-page-master master-name="pages-A3" .../>
  <simple-page-master master-name="pages-Letter" .../>
  ...
  <page-sequence master-reference="pages-{$page-type}">
  ...

> Our product would obviously detect the current country settings and 
> determine the required print format.

... and pass the required print format as a command-line argument.

> If this is possible how would we then set our widths on the table-column 
> column-width settings?

I suggest you use proportional widths that react to the width of the page:

  <table-column column-width="proportional-column-width(...some value...)"/>
  ...
  <table-column column-width="proportional-column-width(...other value...)"/>

This will give you proportionally the same in all results.

I hope this helps.

................. Ken


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