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variable start-indent property

Hi everybody!
I'm using XSLT and FOP to convert XML to PDF. I need to indent a text
block depending on the number of initial tabs. Example:

--- XML ---
<tab><tab>hello world!!


--- XSLT ---
<fo:block start-indent="$initialTabs * 20mm">
 ...
</fo:block>

Where initialTabs is the number of the tabs at the beginning of each
text block (2 tabs in this case).

How can I do that?

Thanks


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RE: variable start-indent property

Posted by "Amick, Eric" <Er...@mail.house.gov>.
Since count() is an XPath function, you could also do 

   <block start-indent="{count(tab) * 20}mm">
     <xsl:value-of select="." />
   </block>

or even (more readably)

   <block start-indent="{count(tab)} * 20mm">
     <xsl:value-of select="." />
   </block>Eric Amick

Legislative Computer Systems
Office of the Clerk

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Delmelle [mailto:andreas.delmelle@telenet.be] 
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 4:55
To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org
Subject: Re: variable start-indent property

On 30 Jul 2009, at 16:59, Alvaro Moraleda wrote:

Hi

> I'm using XSLT and FOP to convert XML to PDF. I need to indent a text 
> block depending on the number of initial tabs. Example:
>
> --- XML ---
> <tab><tab>hello world!!
>
>
> --- XSLT ---
> <fo:block start-indent="$initialTabs * 20mm"> ...
> </fo:block>

It depends a bit on the exact format of the input. If you have:

<text><tab/><tab/>hello world!</text>

Then all you would need to achieve the desired result is something like:

<xsl:template match="text">
   <block>
     <xsl:attribute name="start-indent">
       <xsl:value-of select="count(tab) * 20" /><xsl:text>mm</xsl:text>
     </xsl:attribute>
     <xsl:value-of select="." />
   </block>
</xsl:template>


HTH!

Regards

Andreas

Andreas Delmelle
e-mail: andreas.delmelle.AT.telenet.be
Skype: adlm0608
Jabber: mandreas@jabber.org


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Re: variable start-indent property

Posted by Andreas Delmelle <an...@telenet.be>.
On 30 Jul 2009, at 16:59, Alvaro Moraleda wrote:

Hi

> I'm using XSLT and FOP to convert XML to PDF. I need to indent a text
> block depending on the number of initial tabs. Example:
>
> --- XML ---
> <tab><tab>hello world!!
>
>
> --- XSLT ---
> <fo:block start-indent="$initialTabs * 20mm">
> ...
> </fo:block>

It depends a bit on the exact format of the input. If you have:

<text><tab/><tab/>hello world!</text>

Then all you would need to achieve the desired result is something like:

<xsl:template match="text">
   <block>
     <xsl:attribute name="start-indent">
       <xsl:value-of select="count(tab) * 20" /><xsl:text>mm</xsl:text>
     </xsl:attribute>
     <xsl:value-of select="." />
   </block>
</xsl:template>


HTH!

Regards

Andreas

Andreas Delmelle
e-mail: andreas.delmelle.AT.telenet.be
Skype: adlm0608
Jabber: mandreas@jabber.org


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