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At 2003-12-16 11:54 -0500, Kyle Partridge wrote:
Actually, this is good ... because it means that you are saving all of the time of writing XSLT for a target that you haven't yet determined. Focusing on the XSL-FO first will establish what will and will not work in your situation.
ASCII art sometimes doesn't reflect a lot of nuance ... are you just showing that item5 begins to the right of item2?
Where do you want item3 if item2 is longer than the tab location?
My gut feel is that you'll get close to what you want by using inline containers, but that depends on what you want to do with badly-behaved data.
....................... Ken
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Re: [xsl] FO to format unstructured XML containing "tabs"
Subject: Re: [xsl] FO to format unstructured XML containing "tabs" From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:56:29 -0500 |
At 2003-12-16 11:54 -0500, Kyle Partridge wrote:
I've decided to take your advice, Ken, and just try to focus on the "what FO output do I want" part of the problem...but this is proving harder than I expected.
Actually, this is good ... because it means that you are saving all of the time of writing XSLT for a target that you haven't yet determined. Focusing on the XSL-FO first will establish what will and will not work in your situation.
The only thing it doesn't do right is, there's no consistency where the tabs are "set" to. I get:
item item2 item3 item4 item5 goes on until it reaches the end of the line and finally wraps around, which is OK
When what I really want is:
item item2 item3 item4 item5 goes on until it reaches the end of the line and finally wraps around, which is OK
ASCII art sometimes doesn't reflect a lot of nuance ... are you just showing that item5 begins to the right of item2?
Where do you want item3 if item2 is longer than the tab location?
My gut feel is that you'll get close to what you want by using inline containers, but that depends on what you want to do with badly-behaved data.
....................... Ken
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