Re: [xsl] Saxon Extension for Guessing Composed Text String Length

[Kurt Cagle <kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eliot,

I need this!! I'll be incorporating it in my code, and will try to give 
you feedback as I can.

-- Kurt


Eliot Kimber wrote:

> I have implemented a simple Saxon extension function, 
> renderedTextLength(), that lets you calculate the composed length of 
> short text strings in XSLT. This is intended primarily to enable crude 
> text fitting in FO-generating XSLTs. The accuracy is inherently 
> limited because there's no way for my code to account for the effects 
> of kerning, text sequeezing, justification, and so on, but it's good 
> enough to allow, for example, setting the width of list labels to the 
> length of the longest term in a definition list.
>
> The files are provided under the GNU LGPL license.
>
> The materials are available at: 
> http://www.innodata-isogen.com/resources/tools_downloads/saxon_extensions
>
> (This may require you to register on the Web site, for which I 
> appologize in advance.)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eliot