RE: number-rows-spanned - Faster?

2003-03-22 Thread Rob Stote
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

Re: number-rows-spanned - Faster?

2003-03-21 Thread Clay Leeds
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*

Re: number-rows-spanned - Faster?

2003-03-21 Thread J.Pietschmann
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

Re: number-rows-spanned - Faster?

2003-03-20 Thread J.Pietschmann
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

Re: number-rows-spanned

2003-03-17 Thread Louis . Masters
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

Re: number-rows-spanned

2003-03-17 Thread Clay Leeds
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: |===| | | | | | | | | | | | |

Re: number-rows-spanned

2003-03-17 Thread Peter Solberg
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 somethin

Re: number-rows-spanned

2003-03-17 Thread Clay Leeds
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

Re: number-rows-spanned - Faster?

2003-03-17 Thread Clay Leeds
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

Re: number-rows-spanned

2003-03-17 Thread Louis . Masters
] 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

Re: number-rows-spanned

2003-03-17 Thread Clay Leeds
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

Re: number-rows-spanned

2003-03-17 Thread Philip Semanchuk
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