newbie - table cell spanning rows

Hi,

I'm fairly new to FOP 0.18.1 so I apologize if this question looks stupid
but I couldn't find any info in the FAQ's.


I'm trying to generate a table which looks like this


------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
State          | Type 1                       |    Type 2              |

|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
County         |SubType1 |SubType2 |SubType3  |SubType4      |SubType5
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Costs          |100           | 200                |300           |125
     |124      |
Sales          |200      |300      |300       |145           |100
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

i.e the State-County column needs to span 2 rows, Type 1 spans 3 columns
and Type 2 spans 2 columns

Also, blank lines need to be inserted between every 4th row.
Finally, the row-items "costs" and "sales" need to be indented by 3 pixels.


The fo file I'm using to generate this is given below.
Questions :

1. The "number of rows spanned" attribute does not actually work the way I
intended, instead I get the following error when I run the fo file thru the
FOP program:

formatting FOs into areas
 [1WARNING: Number of cell columns under table-row not equal to number of
table
columns
and the entire "SubType" row is eliminated in the final PDF output

2. How do I insert blank rows in the table. Using

<fo:table-row>
  <fo:table-cell border-style="solid" number-rows-spanned="6">
          <fo:block> </fo:block>
  </fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>

yields a reverse-highlighted blank line which looks like a really big table
border, not a blank white line like I need

3. How do I indent the cell values (Sales, Costs) by a specific number of
blank spaces?

Would really appreciate some help on this.
Thanks,
amit


***********************************************************************
FO file :-

            <fo:table-column column-width="5cm"/>
          <fo:table-column column-width="1.5cm"/>
          <fo:table-column column-width="1.5cm"/>
          <fo:table-column column-width="1.5cm"/>
          <fo:table-column column-width="1.5cm"/>
          <fo:table-column column-width="1.5cm"/>

<fo:table-row>
  <fo:table-cell border-style="solid" number-rows-spanned="2">
          <fo:block>State </fo:block>
          <fo:block>County </fo:block>
  </fo:table-cell>

  <fo:table-cell number-columns-spanned="3" text-align="center"
                                   number-rows-spanned="1">
           <fo:block>Type 1 </fo:block>
  </fo:table-cell>

  <fo:table-cell number-columns-spanned="2" text-align="center">
                     <fo:block>Type 2 </fo:block>
  </fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>


<fo:table-row>
  <fo:table-cell number-columns-spanned="1" >
          <fo:block >SubType 1</fo:block>
  </fo:table-cell>
  <fo:table-cell number-columns-spanned="1" >
          <fo:block >SubType 2</fo:block>
  </fo:table-cell>
  <fo:table-cell number-columns-spanned="1" >
          <fo:block >SubType 3</fo:block>
  </fo:table-cell>
  <fo:table-cell number-columns-spanned="1" >
          <fo:block >SubType 4</fo:block>
  </fo:table-cell>
  <fo:table-cell number-columns-spanned="1" >
          <fo:block >SubType 5</fo:block>
  </fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>





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