Re: [xsl] FO: gap between cells in a table

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

At 2008-10-21 11:50 +0200, Florent Georges wrote:
>   I have to design a table in XSL FO, and the client would like
> to have the overall layout like in the following image:
>
>     http://www.fgeorges.org/tmp/table-headers.png

Looks to me like tables without gaps inside of table cells of a table 
with gaps.

>   My question is about the gap between some of those cells (in
> this image between "sub-tables" A, B, C and D, and the cell "Type
> of activity".)  While in the "sub-tables" the borders should be
> collapsed.
>
>   What is the best approach for this problem?

I would implement the sub-tables as individual tables.

>   I thought to use a table with a gap between its cells and
> without borders collapsing, its cells being sub-tabels which have
> border-collapse="collapse".  Do you think it is a good idea?

Yep!

> Is there something easier?  What is the easiest way to set the gap
> width between the sub-tables?

Since gaps are table-wide properties, I think embedding tables is 
best, and I haven't seen any tool support problems with embedded tables.

I hope this helps.

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

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