I am afraid I just followed your interpretation. I will try to read the spec more independently and more critically.
Regards, Simon On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 03:14:50PM +0200, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > I've just realized I probably made a big mistake interpreting collapsing > border model. While going through the specs to reread everything about > the outer table border I carefully reread the following passages: > > XSL-FO 1.0, 6.7.2, Trait Derivation: > "If the value of the "border-collapse" property is "collapse" or > "collapse-with-precedence" the border is determined, for each segment, > at the cell level." > > So far I've based everything on being determined, for each segment, at > the segment level as it seems. I even had the part about "cell level" > highlighted in my print-out and still got it wrong. Damn me! > > But I think I know why I got it wrong: > > XSL-FO 1.0, 6.7.10, Trait Derivation: > "If the value of the border-collapse trait is "collapse", the border for > each side of the cell is determined by, for each segment of a border, > selecting, from all border specifications for that segment, the border > that has the most "eye catching" border style..." > > Obviously sounded too much like a per-segment thing. > > Under the new light, this means a totally different thing. Looking at my > (buggy) example [1] this means that the segment where the arrow points > should actually be the same broad red border as the one next to it on > the right side. > > That also means that it's making the whole border resolution a lot more > complicated. If you started with the upper left cell and tried to > determine the after border you can end up taking the after border > specification from the cell on the right side of the cell. I'll have to > think about how to implement this in an efficient way, first. > > But before I turn everything upside-down again, can please someone > confirm that I was really wrong before and got it right now? Thanks a > lot. > > > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/CollapsingBorderModel > > Jeremias Maerki > > PS: Can someone please beat me? > -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.nl
