> > From: Jay Chiu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > The tables may span multiple pages. The free form data may
be in
> > any place of any page, depending on the data in database.
Thus I
> > put all absolute positioned block-containers inside a
relative
> > positioned block-container to make the absolute position
> > relative to the outside block-container.
> >
>
> Don't know if you have taken a look at the example i sent
afterwards, but
> seems the latter part is working. It's only the position of
the outer,
> relative positioned block-container which needs to take into
account the
> eventual portion of the table already on the page...
In your example, you set the outer block-container relative to
the beginning of the page.
<fo:block-container
width="4.7in"
height="2in"
top="3in"
left="3.8in">
But as I mentioned the table height depends on the number of
data rows in database, the table may span a few pages, I am
unable to set the "top" attribute on the outer block-container.
In you example, if I add one more table-row, it breaks. If I add
5 more table-row's, fop got error:
[INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser
[INFO] FOP 0.20.5
[INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser
[INFO] building formatting object tree
[INFO] setting up fonts
[INFO] [1]
[ERROR] null
Thanks.
Jay
> > Thus it is impossible to tweak xslt. Is there any other
aproach
> > to implement the report I listed in previous message?
> >
>
> Can't think of any right away. XSL-FO is very
(printed-)page-layout-oriented
> (as is PDF in its roots), so I guess these co�rdinates need to
become fix at
> some point (at the very least, in theory, it should be
possible to derive
> these from the generated fo - whether intermediate or not...)
>
> > >I'm not sure what to make of the width of the
block-container
> > being set to "100%"
> > Previous it is inside a table-cell and use "100%". I did
not
> > change it. I guess it should work.
> >
>
> As you could derive from the regions overlapping the
page-margin, it didn't.
> I think the appropriate interpretation of the '100%' would be
'the width of
> the containing block-container'... but that inside
block-container already
> has an offset from the containing one.
> Again, default XSL-FO behaviour, neatly according to spec
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice7.html#width
>
> In any case - and I think I have mentioned it before somewhere
in this list,
> but in case you missed it - don't rely too much upon the
renderer to guess
> what effect you are trying to achieve. Take care, especially
where it comes
> to relative attribute values.
>
>
> Cheerz,
>
> Andreas Delmelle
>
>
>
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