[xsl] 2 Questions: (1) about looping for declaring table columns (2) variable table widths

["Gagan Bhalla" <gbhalla at mediaprise dot com>]

Q1>>
I am trying to create an fo:table using XSLT on an XML file which has table
elements passed in like so:

<table width="100.00%" border="1" cols="5" rows="4">

Based on the value of the attribute cols passed in, I want to declare
<fo:table-column> before constructing the rest of the <fo:table-body>. In
the code fragment below, how do I get the call to the template "tableColumn"
looped based on the value of  the attributes cols passed in rather than
hardcoding it?

<xsl:template match="table">
	<fo:table space-before.optimum="3pt" space-after.optimum="5pt">
	<!-- check the attributes for number of columns -->
	<xsl:variable name="ColsInTable"><xsl:value-of
select="@cols"/></xsl:variable>
	<xsl:value-of select="@cols"/>
	<xsl:apply-templates select="tableColumn" />
	<xsl:apply-templates select="tableColumn" />
	<xsl:apply-templates select="tableColumn" />
	<fo:table-body>
		<xsl:apply-templates/>
	</fo:table-body>
	</fo:table>
</xsl:template>
<!-- this defines a table column  -->
<xsl:template name="tableColumn">
	<fo:table-column column-width="50mm" border-width="0.5mm"
border-style="solid" />
</xsl:template>


Q2>>
Is there a way to get flexible column widths in <fo:table-column> based on
the text in the table cell rather than hardcoding in the <fo:table-column>
tag? I know fop 0.18.1 does not support that, but do the later versions like
fop 0.20.1 have this feature? Any workarounds?


Thanks,

Gagan


Gagan Bhalla
Senior Applications Architect
Mediaprise (www.mediaprise.com)
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