RE: [xsl] FO: Non-proportional output with proportional font

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:33 PM 5/15/2006, Nathan wrote:
> You have tables created using ascii characters and you don't want your
> document to look ugly?  Good Luck!!!

I agree, that'll be a beast.

The "right" way to do it would be get those tables in XML, not in 
plain-text pseudo-markup.

If the problem can't be fixed upstream, then XSLT 2.0 will be much 
better than XSLT 1.0 for dealing with it. For example, if you're 
lucky you might be able to tokenize your rows into cells (or infer 
the proper widths of cells) using the string " | " as a delimiter. 
That would be plenty lucky, however. At the opposite extreme (and 
just as likely if not more so), if you have any cells spilling across 
a single line -- that's really going to require wizardry.

Indeed, the nigh-unto-impossibility of such ad-hoc parsing chores is 
a great deal of the reason behind standard syntaxes (like XML) for 
markup languages to begin with.

Cheers,
Wendell



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