RE: Writing top to bottom and controlling page break

[Kielen, Agnes]

Hi,

 

<BR/> is a HTML-thing. I don't think it has anything to do with XSL-FO. Why don't you place each character in it's own <fo:block>? That's what I should do.

 

Cheers,

Agnes

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Sent: donderdag 13 februari 2003 13:02
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Subject: Writing top to bottom and controlling page break

Hello,

I need to write some text from the top to the bottom of the page to make a border... like that :

E
X
A
M
P
L
E

I wanted to use the "writing-mode" properties (Values: lr-tb | rl-tb | tb-rl | lr | rl | tb | inherit) but I saw it was not implemented in the FOP API yet.

I finally managed to do that with an XSL transformation which output that :

<fo:block font-size="18pt"
          font-family="Helvetica"
          font-style="normal"
          font-weight="bold"
          line-height="20pt"
          space-after.optimum="0pt"
          color="#A8A5A5"
          text-align="center"
          white-space-collapse="false">
  C
  U
  R
  R
  E
  N
  T
 
  A
  F
  F
  A
  I
  R
</fo:block>

I used the XPath text() function to do that :

<xsl:apply-templates select="RESUME/* | RESUME/text()" />
<xsl:template match="text()"><xsl:value-of select="." /></xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="BR | br"><fo:block>&#160;</fo:block></xsl:template>

I putted the <BR /> tags during the XML serialization of my datas.

Thanks to help me if you have better idea ! =)

Another question, I have to work those days on a new XSL:FO layout that must manage fine page break system.

Is there a better way for handling that than using the XSL string-length() and sum() with an xsl:if tag ? Maybe with the space-after properties ?

Again, if you have better idea on the way to manage that ! Your help would be appreciated here ! :)

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