[xsl] FO to format unstructured XML containing "tabs"

["Kyle Partridge" <kpartridge@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much, Ken and Andreas, for your helpful advice.

I've decided to take your advice, Ken, and just try to focus on the
"what FO output do I want" part of the problem...but this is proving
harder than I expected.

Here's the xml again, for reference:

<p tabs="0.2 1.2 2.2">
some text, maybe formatted <b>maybe not</b>, and then:
<tab/>item<tab/>item2<tab/>item3<br/>
<tab/>item4<tab/>item5
</p>

And here's some FO that *almost* does what I want.  

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--kyle.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>
         some text, maybe formatted
         <inline font-weight="bold">maybe not</inline>,
         and then:
         <block/>
         <inline>
         <leader leader-pattern="space"
leader-length=".2in"/><inline>item</inline>
	  <leader leader-pattern="space"
leader-length="1in"/><inline>item2</inline>
	  <leader leader-pattern="space"
leader-length="1in"/><inline>item3</inline>
	  </inline>
	<block/>
	  <inline>
         <leader leader-pattern="space"
leader-length=".2in"/><inline>item4</inline>
	  <leader leader-pattern="space"
leader-length="1in"/><inline>item5 goes on until it reaches the end of
the line and finally wraps around, which is OK</inline>
	  </inline>
	</block>
   </flow>
  </page-sequence>
</root>


The only thing it doesn't do right is, there's no consistency where the
tabs are "set" to. I get:

item     item2     item3
item4     item5 goes on until it reaches the end of the line and finally
wraps around, which is OK

When what I really want is:

item     item2     item3
item4    item5 goes on until it reaches the end of the line and finally
wraps around, which is OK

I'll keep experimenting.  Thanks again.

KP



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