Hi Carlos, Carlos Villegas wrote: > Hi, > > I searched the mailing lists and it seems that although some people had > worked at several times at trying to implement retrieve-table-marker, > it's not yet done. Is somebody working on this? What's the status?
It’s not being worked on at the moment. This is still a missing feature. > In many use cases omitting the first table header and the last table > footer will do the trick. > > How easy is this to implement? > What will be the steps to add such an extension to FOP? > I just started looking at the code so I'm exploring whether this is > viable solution. That might work. You would need to change the o.a.f.layoutmgr.table.TableContentLayoutManager.getNextKnuthElements method. There is a “if (getTableLM().getTable().omitHeaderAtBreak())” test that you could augment with a “&& !(omitFirstHeader)” clause. Likewise for the footer. The easiest is to directly modify that class and re-build FOP. A bit less easy would be to add a variable in the configuration file, so that you can enable it only for certain FO files. Even less easy would be to add an extension property to fo:table so that you can enable it only for some tables of an FO document. Please ask if you need more details. All that said, such a change would be very hacky and, unless there is overwhelming demand from the user community, I would oppose to integrate it in the code base. This is a patch that you would have to maintain on your side. Better would be of course to actually implement retrieve-table-marker. Although this would be more involving than implementing this little trick... HTH, Vincent
