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Subject: Re: Printing XML + XSLT (2nd try) From: "Nikolai Grigoriev" <grig@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:29:05 +0300 |
Omar Lopez Ruis writes: >> Imagine a bill, or an order form, with many columns and >> more than a page. If I transform that into HTML, when the user prints >> maybe the result don't fit the paper, and what about with many pages >> and I want to put parcial totals at the bottom of every page. Can you >> see the problem? Michael Kay replies: > ... I don't see any evidence that that spec is tackling the problem > either. XSL comes from the document handling tradition and not > the data processing tradition. This is one of most salient deficiencies in the current version of the XSL Formatting Objects - absolutely no support for rendering-time scripting. If you know exactly how many bill items fit on one page, you can insert a subtotal every N items and a page break immediately following the subtotal, simulating more or less the same functionality. I agree this is not an elegant way of doing it. This functionality is very close to running headers/footers: even the simplest running footer like one proposed by James Tauber few months ago would solve the problem. This has always been a source of irritation for XSL FO implementors; however, little progress is apparently being done in this direction. As an aside: We now plan to implement several extensions to XSL FO that will enable us to perform tasks like the one mentioned above; the risk is, however, that this homegrown solution will have nothing in common with the standard. But, given the XSL FO progress speed, we hope to have at least a year before our solution will be overridden ;-). Regards, Nikolai Grigoriev RenderX XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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