Re: [xsl] rotate text 90 degrees

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

At 2002-05-06 16:13 -0400, Amit Thakkar wrote:
> I have an XML document that I want to display as a table (HTML)... I want
> the first row (column names) to have their text rotated 90 degrees... I have
> read that this is possible

In HTML?  I can't see any way looking at http://www.w3.org/TR/html401

> using XSL

In XSLFO it can be done ... see the example below.

I hope this helps.

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

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--amit.fo-->
<root xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";
      font-family="Times" font-size="20pt">

  <layout-master-set>
    <simple-page-master master-name="frame"
                        page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
                        margin-top="15mm" margin-bottom="15mm"
                        margin-left="15mm" margin-right="15mm">
      <region-body region-name="frame-body"/>
    </simple-page-master>
  </layout-master-set>

  <page-sequence master-reference="frame">
    <flow flow-name="frame-body">
      <block>This is a test of a table:</block>
      <table border="solid">
        <table-body>
          <table-row>
            <table-cell border="solid">
              <block-container reference-orientation="90"
                               width="5cm" height="1cm">
                <block>Column A</block>
              </block-container>
            </table-cell>
            <table-cell border="solid">
              <block-container reference-orientation="90"
                               width="5cm" height="1cm">
                <block>Column B</block>
              </block-container>
            </table-cell>
            <table-cell border="solid">
              <block-container reference-orientation="90"
                               width="5cm" height="1cm">
                <block>Column C</block>
              </block-container>
            </table-cell>
          </table-row>
          <table-row>
            <table-cell border="solid">
              <block>aa</block>
            </table-cell>
            <table-cell border="solid">
              <block>bb</block>
            </table-cell>
            <table-cell border="solid">
              <block>cc</block>
            </table-cell>
          </table-row>
        </table-body>
      </table>
    </flow>
  </page-sequence>
</root>


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