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RE: xsl fo: tables : column width

2005-06-07 21:56:37


Hi,
      No problem.

This question is open to the list:

This gentleman has said "The table width problem is not that high a
priority". is it a general feeling among XSL-FO users or just one person's
opinion.

Is table-layout not that big a problem that you can live without it.

Also, he has said, "I'm a little far along to switch formatters".  Would
this user reply differently  if he knew  came to
that there was no need to switch formatters to use my table-layout
component.

Your opinions are welcome.

Cheers,
Omprakash.V





                                                                                
                                  
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Hi Omprakash,

Thank-you for your offer but, I'm a little far along to switch formatters.
The table width problem is not that high a priority.  However if the
situation changes or we have time to spare, I'll contact you about your
code.

Thanks again,

- Jerry




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Subject: [xsl] xsl fo: tables : column width


Hi Jerry,

     Auto-table layout is supported by only a few formatters at present. I
have written a formatter that converts a fo file with auto-layout into one
having fixed layout. I will be glad to make available to you a jar file
together with the api to invoke the formatter. Please contact me off-list
if you are interested.

   My formatter takes as input an fo file and inserts the appropriate
number of fo:table-column tags along with the fo:column-width attribute
with their values populated based on the content of the table cell. At
present, it supports text and images in the table cell. The layout is very
fast (though I haven't measured it) as it uses a  sophisticated adaptive
step-size algorithm to do the layouting. The layout step is in addition to
the xslt transformation and the formatting step. Also, the formatter is
written using JDOM and I plan to incorporate the layout program into a
custom built formatter, possibly one that uses SAX, sometime in the near
future.

Let me know if you are interested.

Cheers,
Omprakash.V
Senior Architect,
Polaris software Lab,
Email: ompravish(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com






















Hi Folks,

I'm relatively new to FO transformations so please forgive me, if this is a
newbie question.

I am dynamically generating tables and don't know the number of columns a
given table may contain. I'd like to fix the width of the table and let the
columns size relative to the content within them.  A good example would be
the default behavior of HTML tables.

Currently I am able to output tables of fixed width, but the column widths
are proportional to the table.

Here's an example of what I mean: http://simplewebservices.net/fo_table/.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

Jerry Orabona



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