This is excellent. NB: I would use a fixed width font for this kind of exercise, eg: font-family="Courier" otherwise there is several cm variation over 30 12pt char between average & em spacing. Unlikely, but ...
Regards, Roland. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mathy V Arumugam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2002 9:33 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Control of long words inside a table cell > > > You could also use this template to split a line at a certain > position. > > <xsl:template name="text_wrapper"> > <xsl:param name="Text"/> > <xsl:choose> > <xsl:when test="string-length($Text)"> > <xsl:value-of select="substring($Text,1,30)"/> > <!-- <xsl:text>
</xsl:text> br/ --> > <xsl:call-template name="wrapper_helper"> > <xsl:with-param name="Text" select="substring($Text,31)"/> > </xsl:call-template> > </xsl:when> > <xsl:otherwise> > > <!-- no more string! --> > </xsl:otherwise> > </xsl:choose> > </xsl:template> > > <!--this will also display 30 chars of the string, and > pass the rest back to > > text_wrapper --> > <xsl:template name="wrapper_helper"> > <xsl:param name="Text"/> > <xsl:value-of select="substring($Text,1,30)"/> > <!-- <br/> --> > <xsl:call-template name="text_wrapper"> > <xsl:with-param name="Text" select="substring($Text,31)"/> > </xsl:call-template> > </xsl:template> > > > > Mathy > > Roland Neilands wrote: > > > >> Use <fo:table-cell wrap-option="wrap"> > > > Thanks for the response; I tried this option but I did not > > > see a difference; > > > the text continues to over-flow the table cell width. > > > > I saw this when testing too. Any whitespace would cause the > cell contents to > > wrap though. You could search the examples and/or archive > for solutions > > involving either hyphenation or inserting zero length > whitespace at set > > points. > > > > Regards, > > Roland >
