Hi
I'm re-sending this problem as I didn't re-phrase after having posted it
to FO and concluded that it is either FO or FOP related.
The problem is that, as per below fragments, a fo:inline within
fo:basic-link in an XSLT template, gets padded with an extra space at
left and right in the resulting FO and consequently PDF output file.
- The same FO results from both FOP and XEP.
- The problem is eliminated if the space is removed manually in the FO
file before transforming to PDF.
I tried adding <xsl:strip-space fo:inline> but it didn't seem to apply to a fo element.
Keeping the fo:inline within fo:basic-link is needed to provide the normal web link appearance.
Has anyone experienced this problem and/or an XSLT solution?
Many thanks for help
Khaled
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I've added the element WebLink to xsl:strip-space to overcome, but
didn't work.
The source XML is:
employing <WebLink url="http://www.xml.org";
<http://www.xml.org>>XML</WebLink>-based single-sourcing.
The XSLT for element WebLink:
<xsl:template match="WebLink">
<fo:basic-link>
<xsl:attribute name="external-destination"><xsl:value-of
select="@url"/></xsl:attribute>
<fo:inline color="blue"
text-decoration="underline"><xsl:apply-templates/></fo:inline>
</fo:basic-link>
</xsl:template>
The Saxon generated FO is:
employing <fo:basic-link external-destination="http://www.xml.org";
<http://www.xml.org>>
<fo:inline color="blue" text-decoration="underline">XML</fo:inline>
</fo:basic-link>-based single-sourcing
And the FOP 0.93 (and XEP 4) generated PDF is (an extra space around the term "XML"; two spaces to the left and an unintended space before the dash):
employing XML -based single-sourcing.
When the FO is edited to ensure no extra space around the <fo:inline>, the PDF comes fine:
employing XML-based single-sourcing.
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