Hi, I don't know what fop do with the tab, maybe someone in fop-dev could answer about that (they read this ml). But I agree with Victor when he talks about the "spirit" of XSL:FO, and moreover, of XSL Transformation.
IMHO, I think you should do a first transformation (with a custom SAX parser) of your source data to "clean" it before generating the xsl-fo source. But I'm not a "fo guru" so it should be better for you to have other opinions. Look at http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/java_xslt_ch5/index.html?page=6 there is an example of a custom SAX parser which take a CSV document as input and transform it into a XML tree. Simon -----Claudio De Bernardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit : ----- Pour : [EMAIL PROTECTED] De : Claudio De Bernardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date : 12/03/2003 06:06PM Objet : tab characters alignment Hi, does anybody know how FOP works with tab characters? I'm trying to generate a PDF file starting from a simple text which contains tab characters, and I want to keep them in the resulting PDF. I put the text into a block tag with the attribute white-space-collapse="false" ( the text to be printed hasn't a standard format, so I can't use tables ) It seems that FOP recognize tabs but it simply replaces them with a fixed number of "white spaces" without any kind of consideration about horizontal alignment Thanks in advance Claudio --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
