Ralf Steppacher wrote:
I have a short question about spaces and precedences:
What I want is to suppress additional space if one headline directly
follows another.
To achieve this I wrote the template with FOs below but it does not work
(I played a bit with attributes and values and could not find any other
working solution using precendences). Could anybody please tell me
whether my FO is wrong or this is a limitation of FOP?
After having read the spec several times, i got the impression
that space-*.precedence is for prioritizing space reservations
coming from stuff from the same area.
Roughly:
<fo:block space-before="10pt" precedence="1">
<fo:block space-before="5pt" precedence="2">
stuff
...
will put "stuff" 5pt after preceding content.
This means, precedence can't be used to collapse space-after
and space-before of consecutive blocks.
PS.: I know that I might just leave out the space-after of the top level
headline. :-)
This is a solution, another one would be to take care of the
conditionality at the XSLT level:
<xsl:template match="products">
<fo:block space-after="20pt" id="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">
<xsl:number count="//[EMAIL PROTECTED]" format="1."/>
<xsl:value-of select="prolog/title"/>
</fo:block>
<xsl:apply-templates select="product"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="product">
<fo:block>
<xsl:if test="position()=1">
<xsl:attribute name="space-before">30pt</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:number count="//[EMAIL PROTECTED]" level="multiple" format="1.1. "/>
<xsl:value-of select="prolog/title"/>
</fo:block>
<xsl:apply-templates select="product_info"/>
<!-- etc. ... -->
</xsl:template>
HTH
J.Pietschmann
