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At 2003-12-17 10:08 +0000, Jonny Pony wrote:
My problem is that I got entries that overflow the regions of the columns in the table and therefore overlap the other column. That sounds like a bug in software not a problem with XSL-FO ... text in a table cell is in a block so is supposed to wrap and create new lines when it reaches the end-edge of the table cell. You don't mention any use of properties to prevent wrapping, so that would point to a problem in the implementation you've chosen to use. The substring-function is not suitable, because it cannot really control the length of the contents (fonts and characters have a different width, so limiting the string to xx-characters makes no sense). Correct, at transformation time there is no feedback on the length of formatted information. Is there a way of cuttting of the text at the end of the cell? Yes: force the text to a single line instead of the default wrapping at the end of a table cell, then place that text inside of a block container whose overflow property hides anything that goes beyond the container's edges. For example: <table-cell> <block>Example with a lot of text that is specified to wrap in order to illustrate behaviour</block> </table-cell> <table-cell> <block-container overflow="hidden"> <block white-space="nowrap">Example with a lot of text that is specified not to wrap in order to illustrate clipping</block> </block-container> </table-cell> Is there a way of cuttting of the text after xx-cm? No. Is there a better approach? Find a processor that works properly? I hope this helps. ....................... Ken -- North America (Washington, DC): 3-day XSLT/2-day XSL-FO 2004-02-09 Instructor-led on-site corporate, government & user group training for XSLT and XSL-FO world-wide: please contact us for the details G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) ISBN 0-13-065196-6 Definitive XSLT and XPath ISBN 0-13-140374-5 Definitive XSL-FO ISBN 1-894049-08-X Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath ISBN 1-894049-11-X Practical Formatting Using XSL-FO Member of the XML Guild of Practitioners: http://XMLGuild.info Male Breast Cancer Awareness http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/bc XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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