Thanks Bob! Its strange that no one has had any problems in the past. It could be that the processors blow right by it and only complain about it lightly.
I filed a bug report: #3000898 Thanks Dean In a message dated 05/12/10 17:25:50 Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I also find this behavior a bit odd. It is not accidental, as there is a specific bit of code that turns off column-width when set to 1: <xsl:if test="$colwidth != 'proportional-column-width(1)'"> <xsl:attribute name="column-width"> <xsl:value-of select="$colwidth"/> </xsl:attribute> </xsl:if> The $colwidth variable is computed, and if its value is "proportional-column-width(1)" then no column-width attribute is output at all! I have no idea why this step is taken. This bit of code has existed in the table.xsl file since it was first created by Norm Walsh in 2001. It may have been a limitation of early FO processors, but it certainly isn't desirable behavior now. Please file a bug report on SourceForge for this item. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 4:42 PM Subject: [docbook-apps] Table column proportional values Hello everyone, I started paying attention to the warning messages that FOP puts out and discovered an issue in one of my tables. It appears that the 'colwidth' attribute is a bit touchy with the values that it gets. If a value is specified as "1*" it will not generate the proportional XSL-FO code that it needs and then out puts a message: WARNING: table-layout="fixed" and column-width unspecified => falling back to proportional-column-width(1) (See position 560:47) This in itself is not a big problem, but when tracking down why it did that, the 1.75.2 version of the stylesheets emits some code that doesn't seem right. I'm using XSLTPROC but I get the same results with Saxon 6.5.5 and without any customization layer. Example 1: <colspec colname="c1" colwidth="1*" align="left"/> <colspec colname="c2" colwidth="2*" align="left"/> <colspec colname="c3" colwidth="2*" align="left"/> produces in the FO file: <fo:table-column column-number="1"/> <fo:table-column column-number="2" column-width="proportional-column-width(2)"/> <fo:table-column column-number="3" column-width="proportional-column-width(2)"/> and thus produces the warning. Whereas changing the '1*' to '3*' in the first column produces no warning. Example 2: <colspec colname="c1" colwidth="3*" align="left"/> <colspec colname="c2" colwidth="2*" align="left"/> <colspec colname="c3" colwidth="2*" align="left"/> produces in the FO file: <fo:table-column column-number="1" column-width="proportional-column-width(3)"/> <fo:table-column column-number="2" column-width="proportional-column-width(2)"/> <fo:table-column column-number="3" column-width="proportional-column-width(2)"/> Obviously the work around is to refrain from using '1*' in our tables but that would be a pain. Is this an error in the stylesheets or my thinking/processing? Regards, Dean Nelson --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
