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becky goodfordSubject: forcing a blank line
Author: becky goodford
Date: 08 Mar 2006 04:25 PM
my xml file contains Section 1 with varied number of questions.
then section 2 with varied number of questions..then section 3 etc.

you helped me earlier on this, and I have it working fine...but, now I would like to force a blank line after the last question in each section.

(your previous help involved supressing of printing the Section title every time..)


Unknownsat-customer.xsl
xsl file

Unknownsat-customer.xml
xml file

Unknowncustomer.pdf
out pdf file
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Minollo I.Subject: forcing a blank line
Author: Minollo I.
Date: 09 Mar 2006 09:36 AM
You can probably change your loop start to something like:

...
<xsl:for-each select="datasettablename">
<xsl:if test="preceding-sibling::datasettablename[1]/section_title != section_title">
<fo:table-row height="12pt"/>
</xsl:if>
...
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Minollo I.Subject: forcing a blank line
Author: Minollo I.
Date: 09 Mar 2006 09:49 AM
BTW, I've noticed two things that you may want to review:

- Your XSLT generates XSL-FO, which is an XML grammar; but you are setting your output method to "HTML"; I would recommend that you either remove your output method setting, or set it to "XML" instead

- Even if you are generating XSL-FO, you haven't set Stylus Studio to preview the result after a post-processing step that would convert XSL-FO into PDF. That would make testing much easier. You can instruct Stylus Studio to render the result as PDF selecting XSLT > Scenario Properties... and then choosing "Apache FOP" in the post-processing tab. Please not that post processing will not take place unless you change your output method to be undefined or XML

Hope this helps,
Minollo

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becky goodfordSubject: forcing a blank line
Author: becky goodford
Date: 09 Mar 2006 10:51 AM
good to know about the setting for xml.
we have been using another PDF generater, so each time I save the xsl fo code, I use the generator to preview results, as I could not get Stylus to work, but now that you mention the setting of xml instead of html, I will give that a try.
thanks again, btw this is the cheating code i used to eventually get it to work. it makes it look like a blank line...

<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="preceding-sibling::datasettablename[1]/section_title = section_title"></xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<fo:block color="white">one</fo:block>
<xsl:value-of select="section_title"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

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Minollo I.Subject: forcing a blank line
Author: Minollo I.
Date: 09 Mar 2006 11:14 AM
For the record, you can configure your own XSL-FO processor in Stylus Studio to do post-processing; we have examples about how to configure RenderX, for example (http://www.stylusstudio.com/renderx/xep.html).

Minollo

   
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