RE: number-rows-spanned - Faster?
Title: RE: number-rows-spanned - Faster? I have found nesting tables can be quite quick. If it is simple tables nest within another. If you get into nest 4, and 5 deep that is where there can be a slow down. Rob -Original Message- From: J.Pietschmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 7:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: number-rows-spanned - Faster? Clay Leeds wrote: I'm still wondering, and you're probably the person to ask: is FOP faster with spanned rows or nested tables. I don't know. There is more code and data involved if a nested table is used, a row spanning cell however may cause some sort of backtracking. Probably you'll need to run a direct comparision. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: number-rows-spanned - Faster?
J.Pietschmann wrote: Clay Leeds wrote: Is it faster to nest my fo:tables or to use number-rows-spanned to create more complicated tables? I'd try nested tables first, cells spanning rows occasionally create nasty problems at page breaks. J.Pietschmann Thanks for the warning, but I *shouldn't* have any problems where I'm doing this, because it's in our rather large region-before (medical billing requires tons of info on every page). If there's a page break issue, I've got other problems. (hehehe...) I'm still wondering, and you're probably the person to ask: is FOP faster with spanned rows or nested tables. -- Clay Leeds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Developer - Medata, Inc. - http://www.medata.com PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/cleeds.asc - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: number-rows-spanned - Faster?
Clay Leeds wrote: I'm still wondering, and you're probably the person to ask: is FOP faster with spanned rows or nested tables. I don't know. There is more code and data involved if a nested table is used, a row spanning cell however may cause some sort of backtracking. Probably you'll need to run a direct comparision. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: number-rows-spanned - Faster?
Clay Leeds wrote: Is it faster to nest my fo:tables or to use number-rows-spanned to create more complicated tables? I'd try nested tables first, cells spanning rows occasionally create nasty problems at page breaks. J.Pietschmann - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: number-rows-spanned
I use number-rows-spanned in 0.20.3: fo:table-cell number-rows-spanned=2 /fo:table-cell -Lou Clay Leeds [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/17/2003 11:47:37 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FOP-User [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: number-rows-spanned I successfully use number-columns-spanned in my XSL-FO files. However, I can not figure out how to do number-rows-spanned correctly. I now see in the FOP:Implemented:Properties section, that number-columns-spanned is cited but number-rows-spanned is not. This may account for my difficulties. Has the functionality for number-rows-spanned been added to FOP while the maintainer of the Implemented list was asleep (wishful thinking-to-be-sure). I wonder what other features have been added while no one was looking. Is there some type of search engine in CVS which could be used to output Implemented list to ensure we're not missing some object|property that's been implemented, or is that wishful thinking too ;-)? -- Clay Leeds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Developer - Medata, Inc. - http://www.medata.com PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/cleeds.asc - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: number-rows-spanned
Lou, Thanks for the quick reply. That's GREAT! A couple of questions: 1. Does it work in 0.20.4 and/or 0.20.5x? 2. Can you give me an example? I'd like to do something like this: |===| | | | | | | | | | | | | |===| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |===| | | | | | | | | | |===| Many thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use number-rows-spanned in 0.20.3: fo:table-cell number-rows-spanned=2 /fo:table-cell -Lou -- Clay Leeds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Developer - Medata, Inc. - http://www.medata.com PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/cleeds.asc - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: number-rows-spanned
You can achieve this table layout by using nested tables... fo:tablefo:table-column/fo:table-column/fo:table-bodyfo:table-rowfo:table-cell!-- NESTED TABLE -- fo:tablefo:table-column/fo:table-column/fo:table-bodyfo:table-rowfo:table-cell/fo:table-cellfo:table-cell/fo:table-cell/fo:table-rowfo:table-rowfo:table-cell/fo:table-cellfo:table-cell/fo:table-cell/fo:table-row/fo:table-body/fo:table /fo:table-cellfo:table-cell/fo:table-cell/fo:table-rowfo:table-rowfo:table-cell/fo:table-cellfo:table-cell/fo:table-cell/fo:table-row/fo:table-body/fo:table From: Clay Leeds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: number-rows-spanned Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:57:05 -0800 Lou, Thanks for the quick reply. That's GREAT! A couple of questions: 1. Does it work in 0.20.4 and/or 0.20.5x? 2. Can you give me an example? I'd like to do something like this: |===| | | | | | | | | | | | | |===| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |===| | | | | | | | | | |===| Many thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use "number-rows-spanned" in 0.20.3: -Lou -- Clay Leeds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Developer - Medata, Inc. - http://www.medata.com PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/cleeds.asc - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: number-rows-spanned
Peter, I appreciate the note. However, I'm already doing that and am instead interested in implementing a non-nested version as I am inclined to believe it will provide more optimized efficient results. Rob Stote's e-mail earlier today showed a ~6% cut in processing time: RESULTS FOR CALLED TABLES: 703 [main] DEBUG RenderPDF - Avg render time: 328ms/page 640 [main] DEBUG RenderPDF - Avg render time: 289ms/page 703 [main] DEBUG RenderPDF - Avg render time: 320ms/page 656 [main] DEBUG RenderPDF - Avg render time: 312ms/page 625 [main] DEBUG RenderPDF - Avg render time: 297ms/page AVRG: 309.2ms/page RESULTS FOR NESTED TABLES: 766 [main] DEBUG RenderPDF - Avg render time: 312ms/page 609 [main] DEBUG RenderPDF - Avg render time: 281ms/page 688 [main] DEBUG RenderPDF - Avg render time: 312ms/page 609 [main] DEBUG RenderPDF - Avg render time: 281ms/page 641 [main] DEBUG RenderPDF - Avg render time: 305ms/page AVRG: 298.2ms/page I realize this is somewhat subjective limited testing (there may be correlations to platform, as well as other processes running), but I am looking for the most efficient solution possible. From my experience with Netscape and other web browsers (a different beast to be sure!) nested tables tend to exhibit significant load increases as tables are nested deeper deeper. Thank you again for the note (and the code!) Respectfully, Web Maestro Clay Peter Solberg wrote: You can achieve this table layout by using nested tables... -- Clay Leeds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Developer - Medata, Inc. - http://www.medata.com PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/cleeds.asc - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: number-rows-spanned - Faster?
Is it faster to nest my fo:tables or to use number-rows-spanned to create more complicated tables? -- Clay Leeds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Developer - Medata, Inc. - http://www.medata.com PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/cleeds.asc - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: number-rows-spanned
1. No idea - I have not tried to upgrade yet. 2. OK, I didn't actually run this, but it should work: fo:table-row fo:table-cell/ fo:table-cell/ fo:table-cell number-rows-spanned=2/ /fo:table-row fo:table-row fo:table-cell/ fo:table-cell/ /fo:table-row fo:table-row fo:table-cell number-columns-spanned=2/ fo:table-cell/ /fo:table-row Try it out and let me know. If it doesn't work, I'll send you the complete xsl file that we use. -Lou Clay Leeds [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 03/17/2003 11:57:05 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: number-rows-spanned Lou, Thanks for the quick reply. That's GREAT! A couple of questions: 1. Does it work in 0.20.4 and/or 0.20.5x? 2. Can you give me an example? I'd like to do something like this: |===| | | | | | | | | | | | | |===| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |===| | | | | | | | | | |===| Many thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use number-rows-spanned in 0.20.3: fo:table-cell number-rows-spanned=2 /fo:table-cell -Lou -- Clay Leeds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Developer - Medata, Inc. - http://www.medata.com PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/cleeds.asc - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: number-rows-spanned
Thanks Lou, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try it out and let me know. If it doesn't work, I'll send you the complete xsl file that we use. -Lou Works fine. I actually modified a portion of my own code to see. It still uses many nested tables, but my results did show a slight improvement (which, of course could be attributed to many things). Considering I've probably got 30+nested tables on each page (some 3 or 4 levels deep) I am hoping this could pan out to perhaps a 5-15% improvement in rendering times (I tend to be optimistic! ;-). The location I changed in my code for testing was *very* minor, but since it showed a slight improvement, I'm inclined to do further testing. -- Clay Leeds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Developer - Medata, Inc. - http://www.medata.com PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/cleeds.asc - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: number-rows-spanned
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 11:47, Clay Leeds wrote: I successfully use number-columns-spanned in my XSL-FO files. However, I can not figure out how to do number-rows-spanned correctly. I now see in the FOP:Implemented:Properties section, that number-columns-spanned is cited but number-rows-spanned is not. This may account for my difficulties. Clay, I use number-rows-spanned without difficulty and with no nested tables. Usage examples for both number-rows-spanned and number-columns-spanned are in /docs/examples/tables/headfoot.fo. FYI, I found this by grepping for spanned in the tables directory. I am using FOP 0.20.5rc. Good luck Philip - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
