Eliot,
I need this!! I'll be incorporating it in my code, and will try to give
you feedback as I can.
-- Kurt
Eliot Kimber wrote:
I have implemented a simple Saxon extension function,
renderedTextLength(), that lets you calculate the composed length of
short text strings in XSLT. This is intended primarily to enable crude
text fitting in FO-generating XSLTs. The accuracy is inherently
limited because there's no way for my code to account for the effects
of kerning, text sequeezing, justification, and so on, but it's good
enough to allow, for example, setting the width of list labels to the
length of the longest term in a definition list.
The files are provided under the GNU LGPL license.
The materials are available at:
http://www.innodata-isogen.com/resources/tools_downloads/saxon_extensions
(This may require you to register on the Web site, for which I
appologize in advance.)
Cheers,
Eliot