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Re: xsl-fo: dynamic headers with overflow, complex tables
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- Subject: Re: xsl-fo: dynamic headers with overflow, complex tables
- From: Harald dot Weyhing at ofd dot mf dot lsa-net dot de (Harald Weyhing)
- Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 15:15:48 +0200
- Organization: OFD Magdeburg
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thank you max,
we have already been thinking about your solution, but... as you say: not
easy and in my opinion not the way one should work with xsl-fo.
harald
Max Froumentin schrieb:
> Harald.Weyhing@ofd.mf.lsa-net.de (Harald Weyhing) writes:
>
> > my second question is more complicated. i want to generate tables wich
> > fill multiple pages. here it would be necessary to always have a line
> > that consists of column-sums in the table-footer and in the header on
> > the next page. i know that this question does not fit into the area
> > concept of xsl-fo, but still perhaps somebody has some idea how to get
> > that done.
>
> If I understand correctly, you want to have a table that spans several
> pages, and at the bottom of each page, a footer-row that contains the
> sums of column values for that page (and a header-row on the next page
> with the same value).
>
> It is indeed not an typically fo issue, but an well-known problematic
> test case for xsl in general (as well as CSS, as it were). As FO can't
> do such calculations, the only way I can think of is to have XSLT
> produce one table per page, correctly computing the number of rows and
> the sums according to page size, font-size and everything. Not easy :-/
>
> Max.
>
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> Max Froumentin - W3C
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