[xsl] Preserving Spaces and Tabs

[Andy Carr1 <CARRA@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I am using XSL-FO along with RenderX XEP v4.9  to produce PDF output.. 

In my source XML have text that incorporates spaces, tabs and line-feeds 
and need to preserve this formatting in the output PDF.

Using

<fo:block white-space="pre" >
   <xsl:value-of select="." />
</fo:block>

handles the spaces and line-feeds but each tab appears to be treated as a 
single space, so instead of,say, 8 spaces being rendered for 2 tabs (of 4 
spaces each) I am only getting 2 spaces rendered.

I have tried all the values available in the "white-space", 
"white-space-collapse" and "white-space-treatment" attributes of 
<fo:block> and nothing seems to deal with the tabs.

Can anyone shed some light on the problem.

Regards
Andy

Andy Carr
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