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Mark Custer commented on FOP-2136:
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I have use case where it would be great to change the BPD, depending on how
much data is going to be grabbed by the retrieve-table-marker element. Is
there any chance that this would be accommodated in Apache FOP, or would it be
better to find a completely new approach to include this data? Our current
approach is to use the retrieve-marker element in the header of the page, and
just make the header big enough to accommodate a hierarchy that could span 1 to
5 lines (with any other deeper levels in the hierarchy being left out of the
retrieve-marker section).
> [PATCH] support for retrieve-table-marker
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>
> Key: FOP-2136
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOP-2136
> Project: FOP
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: unqualified
> Affects Versions: trunk
> Environment: Operating System: All
> Platform: All
> Reporter: Luis Bernardo
> Assignee: fop-dev
> Attachments: examples.tar.gz, retrieve-table-marker.patch
>
>
> This patch adds support for retrieve-table-marker. The patch is extensive and
> very likely there is room for improvement, but it does what it is supposed to
> do and was tested with non trivial examples.
> The implementation has a main constraint: the resolution of the
> retrieve-table-marker element needs to be an element that does not change the
> BPD of the containing cell. In practical terms this means that the height of
> the table header or footer where the retrieve-table-marker element is placed
> cannot change once the retrieve-table-marker is replaced by the resolved
> content. In the end this is not a serious constraint since in most cases the
> retrieve-table-marker element is meant to be replaced by a line of text (and
> there is already adjacent text, or the height of the cell is specified).
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