Re: [xsl] XSL-FO: Fixed box to construct empty text-box or tick-box.

["Lloyd Thompson" <lloyd_t@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately it would appear that for some reason Apache FOP will not let 
me place a block-container inside a list-item-body, I get the following 
error:

[ERROR] org.apache.fop.layout.BlockArea

Furthermore, the inline-container which had a leader inside also didn't 
render. Aside from the W3C spec for FO is there a site which provides a 
widely supported API like reference for FO elements?

I did manage to render fixed size boxes using SVG, however now my answer 
options appears next to the top of the box - how can I vertically align my 
answer text so it appears next to the box but centrally vertically aligned?

Current code as follows:

<fo:table border-collapse="separate" table-layout="fixed" 
space-before="0.5cm">
				<fo:table-column  column-width="11.5cm" />
				<fo:table-column  column-width="0.5cm" />
				<fo:table-column  column-width="3.75cm" />
				<fo:table-column  column-width="0.5cm" />
				<fo:table-column  column-width="3.75cm" />
				<fo:table-body>
					<fo:table-row>

						<fo:table-cell>
							<fo:block  font-family="Times">Question?</fo:block>

						</fo:table-cell>

						<fo:table-cell>
							<fo:block>
								<fo:instream-foreign-object>
									<svg:svg>
											<svg:rect fill="none" stroke-width="0.5" stroke="black"  
height="5mm" width="5mm" />
									  </svg:svg>
								</fo:instream-foreign-object>
							 </fo:block>
						</fo:table-cell>

						<fo:table-cell>
							<fo:block height="5mm" start-indent="3pt">Yes</fo:block>
						</fo:table-cell>

						<fo:table-cell>
							<fo:block>
								<fo:instream-foreign-object>
									<svg:svg>
											<svg:rect style="fill:none;stroke:black"   height="5mm" 
width="5mm" />
									  </svg:svg>
								</fo:instream-foreign-object>
							 </fo:block>
						</fo:table-cell>

						<fo:table-cell >
							<fo:block  start-indent="3pt">No</fo:block>
						</fo:table-cell>

					</fo:table-row>
				</fo:table-body>
			</fo:table>

Thanks,

Lloyd

> From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] XSL-FO: Fixed box to construct empty text-box or  
> tick-box.
> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:10:09 -0500
>
> At 2006-03-22 17:23 +0000, Lloyd Thompson wrote:
> > I am writing XSL-FO to produce a questionnaire document. For this I will 
> > need to create empty text-boxes and tick-boxes.
>
> When I've had to create quiz layouts, I've used <block-container> very 
> effectively:  if the quiz had a specified distance *including* the 
> question, the question is flowed inside the <block-container>, whereas if 
> the quiz had a specified distance for just the answer, the question is 
> flowed before the <block-container>.
>
> Here is the test bed that I used to learn this ... these are the first two 
> questions from our evaluation form for our hands-on XSL training ... the 
> first has the question inside the block container, the second has the 
> question before the block container:
>
>    <list-item>
>      <list-item-label text-align="end" end-indent="label-end()">
>        <block>1)</block>
>      </list-item-label>
>      <list-item-body start-indent="body-start()">
>        <block-container block-progression-dimension="2.3cm">
>          <block start-indent="0pt">
>         <xsl:text>Did the material cover what you were 
> expecting?</xsl:text>
>          </block>
>        </block-container>
>      </list-item-body>
>    </list-item>
>    <list-item>
>      <list-item-label text-align="end" end-indent="label-end()">
>        <block>2)</block>
>      </list-item-label>
>      <list-item-body start-indent="body-start()">
>        <block space-before="inherited-property-value(font-size) * .5"
>               text-align-last="justify">
>          <xsl:text>Quality of the presentation slides:</xsl:text>
>          <leader/>
>          <xsl:text>(poor) 1 - 10 (excellent): </xsl:text>
>          <leader leader-pattern="rule" leader-length="1cm"
>                  rule-thickness="1pt"/>
>        </block>
>        <block space-before="inherited-property-value(font-size) * .5">
>          <xsl:text>How might the presentation slides be 
> improved?</xsl:text>
>        </block>
>        <block-container block-progression-dimension="2.0cm"
>                         start-indent="0pt"
>                     space-before="inherited-property-value(font-size) * 
> .5">
>          <block/>
>        </block-container>
>      </list-item-body>
>    </list-item>
>
> For tick-boxes, I use a bordered <inline-container>, as in the following 
> also from my evaluation sheet, though this appears to only work in Antenna 
> House and not in XEP or in Ibex, and I haven't bothered to figure out who 
> is right and who is wrong ... it might only be an issue of those tools not 
> supporting <inline-container>:
>
>     <block space-before="inherited-property-value(font-size) * .5"
>            text-align-last="justify">
>       <xsl:text>Would you like to be contacted for information</xsl:text>
>       <xsl:text> on future courses from either the event</xsl:text>
>       <xsl:text> organizers or directly from Crane?</xsl:text>
>       <leader/>
>       <inline-container width="1em" height="1em"
>                         alignment-adjust="text-after-edge"
>                         border-style="solid" border-width="1pt">
>         <block><leader/></block>
>       </inline-container>
>       <xsl:text> No </xsl:text>
>       <inline-container width="1em" height="1em"
>                         alignment-adjust="text-after-edge"
>                         border-style="solid" border-width="1pt">
>         <block><leader/></block>
>       </inline-container>
>       <xsl:text> Yes</xsl:text>
>     </block>
>
> From my understanding of XSL-FO the above should be right.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> . . . . . . . . Ken
>
> At 2006-03-22 17:23 +0000, Lloyd Thompson wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I am writing XSL-FO to produce a questionnaire document. For this I will 
> > need to create empty text-boxes and tick-boxes. So far,  I have managed to 
> > produce text-boxes using fo:table; the text-boxes are simply cells that 
> > contain borders. The problem is that this box grows as the text in another 
> > column spans over more than one line, so ideally I want to place a fixed 
> > size box in the table.
> >
> > What is the best way to go about doing this? I tried to create an empty 
> > fo:block and specified attributes for height and width but unfortunatley 
> > as the box is not populated, it appears as a flat line. Do I have to 
> > produce an SVG?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Lloyd
>
>
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