FO to format unstructured XML containing "tabs"

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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