What you describe is actually something that FOP is supposed to do automatically but so far hasn't learned to do. This is described in [1] for the fixed table layout. At the moment, you probably need to do some calculation in XSLT and add to the column widths yourself.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/tables.html#width-layout On 07.03.2006 00:28:05 Karl Roberts wrote: > Hi all, > > I have some XML that defines TabularData elements, which represent > tabular data. In some cases the data can includes information on the > column widths in order to guarentee that the data fit's in it. > > Eg > > <TabularData> > <MetaData> > <!-- mandatory fields from schema --> > <TableID>freshmoney</TableID> > <TableTitle>Fresh Money IDEAs</TableTitle> > <NumColumns>5</NumColumns> > <NumRows>20</NumRows> > <ColumnTitleRowNum>0</ColumnTitleRowNum> > > <!-- optional fields from schema --> > <!-- nb the width should be calculated from fontmetrics, use (num of > chars * 0.6 for now) --> > <Column num="1" width="7.8" text-justify="left"/> > <Column num="2" width="2.6" text-justify="left"/> > <Column num="3" width="3.6" text-justify="right"/> > <Column num="4" width="4.2" text-justify="right"/> > <Column num="5" width="2.4" text-justify="right"/> > </MetaData> > > <Cell xpos="0" ypos="0">ColHeader1</Cell> > <Cell xpos="1" ypos="0">CH2</Cell> > <Cell xpos="2" ypos="0">Col3 Price</Cell> > <Cell xpos="3" ypos="0">Header4</Cell> > <Cell xpos="4" ypos="0">Head 5</Cell> > <Cell xpos="0" ypos="1">Chartered Semiconductor</Cell> > <Cell xpos="1" ypos="1">OP</Cell> > <Cell xpos="2" ypos="1">1.5</Cell> > <Cell xpos="3" ypos="1">1.29</Cell> > <Cell xpos="4" ypos="1">16</Cell> > ... > ... > </TabularData> > > I have an xsl template that can turn all this into a nice table and if > the data contains <Column> elements I use xsl like this ... > > <fo:table table-layout="fixed" width="100%"> > <xsl:for-each select="MetaData/Column"> > <xsl:sort select="self::node()/@num" data-type="number"/> > <fo:table-column column-number="{self::node()/@num}" > column-width="{self::node()/@width-in-em}em"/> > </xsl:for-each> > <fo:table-body> ... </fo:table-body> > ... > </fo:table> > > I works fine. However when the table width is greater than the sum of > the widths I'd like to widen the columns (or just the first one) to fill > the available space. Given that the xsl to produce a table is in a call > and hence the table width is given as 100% (of space available to the > <fo:block/> that it is enclosed inanyone have a clue how to do this? > > If it helps I'll post the schema and xsl-fo template for the table. > > Cheers > > Karl Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
