RE: Help with layout and design

["Winterflood, Jonathan" <jo...@capgemini.com>]

Hi,

 

As far as I can tell, your current data is in some kind of fixed width columns, padded with spaces.

If this is the case, you could just use substring(string,start[,len]) to cut it up. Obviously this would require knowing the width of the column.

 

As a variation on Andreas' solution, maybe the splitting criteria could be the presence of n spaces (3 or so?)

 

Obviously these can break if the data ever gets too long and breaks the fixed-length column layout, or contains multiple spaces in the data, or the data is just small enough and there is only one space between columns.

Cheers,

Jonathan Winterflood (3237)

Capgemini Ouest - Agence de Brest

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De : Ashish Kulkarni [mailto:ashish.kulkarni13@gmail.com] 
Envoyé : jeudi 31 juillet 2008 21:14
À : fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org
Objet : Re: Help with layout and design

 

Hi

The issue, i am not the one designing this XML file, but it is already exisiting XML file, used in some other application, 

This application some how has a templelate and then takes this XML file and mergers with this template to create PDF file, and i have to analyize if we can do this uing XSL-FO with out modifying the XML file.

I guess we cannot use the XML file as is, but have to modify the XML file to add some sort of delimiter to the data

Ashish

 

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Griffin,Sean <SG...@cerner.com> wrote:

I don't think your problem will be XSLT and certainly not XSL-FO but how you tell the difference between one column and the next and which data element you're actually dealing with.

 

Just pseudo-code, outside of any particular language, what would the algorithm be for determining that.  How you turn that algorithm into code in XSLT could be trivial, if it's even safely possible.

 

From: Ashish Kulkarni [mailto:ashish.kulkarni13@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:15 AM
To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org
Subject: Help with layout and design

 

Hi

I have an XML file where the data is as below

<data>

<line1>My Name                                        1 of 1</line1>

<line2>My Address                                      01/12/2008</line2>

<!--more lines of data here -->

</data>

I need to have boxes on PDF file like below, where i will hard code Name, page 

___________________________________________________________________

Name: My Name                             Page: 1of 1

Address: My Address                      Date: 01/12/2008

___________________________________________________________________

Is it possible to do some thing like this using XSLT and XSL-Fo

Any suggestions

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