Re: [xsl] Borders between columns

["W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mete Kural wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How do you put borders or lines between multiple
> columns? For instance I have a three-columned page and
> I want to put a line between the first and the second
> column and second and the third column. How do I do it
> that it looks like this:
>
> xxxx | xxxx | xxxx
> xxxx | xxxx | xxxx
> xxxx | xxxx | xxxx
> xxxx | xxxx | xxxx
> xxxx | xxxx | xxxx
> xxxx | xxxx | xxxx

You can use static content in the region-before or region-after to 
create the rules. A table would probably be the most interchangable 
markup to use. Not quite as nice as just specifying rules as part of the 
region-body declaration or something, but it will work.

Note that you cannot have both static content and a flow in the same 
page region, so you can't use static content in the region-body to do 
this. However, the edge regions can overlap the body region, so by 
setting a large extent on one of the edge regions you can make it as big 
as the body region and therefore use it to create overlays/underlays, 
such as column rules.

The only trick is working out the precise geometry of the table to get 
the rules in the right place.

Cheers,

Eliot
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