Subject: [xsl] tables in xsl:fo From: Ulf Carlsson <ulf.carlsson@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:14:51 +0100 |
> Good day, > > I have working with converting html to xml and then further into pdf > documents using XEP and am having a slight problem. > I currently have quite a lot of text in a database of which all has to be > converted to pdf. Every single text contains a table with quite a few > columns which have been spanned irregularly in order to get the looks > right and my problem lies in the fact that the xsl:fo does not seem to > support a totally dynamical column width as html does. > > An example is that if I have a row consisting of 5 columns which have been > spanned over two columns looking something like : > <td colspan="1">Hello world </td> <td colspan="4">Hello Galaxy </td> > the first column will get wordwrapped eaven if there is enough space to > display both of them in a single row. > The solution that I have found is to shift one column over to the first > one so that the result looks like : > <td colspan="2">Hello world </td> <td colspan="3">Hello Galaxy </td> > > The problem with this is that there is no clear pattern to follow so I > cannot do the shift programatically but have to shift them by hand. > The amount of texts I have to convert is around 9000 so doing this by hand > is not really an option as it would take me from now to christmas 2005. > > If there is anyone that has a solution to this I would be increadibly > grateful, and would eaven consider putting up a buddha statue with the > persons name under it and worshipping it daily. > > With best regards > Ulf Carlsson > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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