RE: xsl fo: tables : column width

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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From: omprakash.v@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:omprakash.v@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 12:10 AM
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Subject:  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@xxxxxxxxxxx






















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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