Re: [xsl] XML->XSL-> FO->PDF whitespace problems

[Michael Engelhart <mengelhart at earthtrip dot com>]

Thanks - but, that still didn't do it.   The way this displayed in my 
PDF was that the 20 lines of formatted text showed up as one line that 
disappeared into the right margin.   are there any default settings that 
should be set in the master-set or anything?  I wouldn't guess so since 
when I did it with just the plain text inside the FO document, it worked 
fine and i'm using all the same things except that I'm doing an XSLT 
transform to create the FO instead of hardwiring it.

any other ideas?

Thanks again
Mike

On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 03:56  PM, Joseph.Braun wrote:

> I had to play around with this too.
> Try the wrap-option="no-wrap" and white-space-collapse="false"
>
> <fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="Courier" line-height="15pt"
> space-after.optimum="3pt" text-align="left" wrap-option="no-wrap"
> white-space-collapse="false"  >
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Engelhart [mailto:mengelhart@earthtrip.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 2:20 PM
> To: XSL-List@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: [xsl] XML->XSL-> FO->PDF whitespace problems
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I've spent the last few hours searching the archives of this list and a
> few others and can't find what I'm looking for.
>
> I am using FOP 0.20.3, Xalan 2.2 to do XML->PDF transforms.  I have an
> element that is preformatted legacy text.  It's got tabs and spaces and
> linefeed/carriage returns.    I want to output this in the PDF in the
> same format.
>
> Here's a sample:
>
> 	NAME
> 	ADDRESS
> 	CITY, STATE, ZIP
> 		BEGIN PARAGRAPH
>
> 		BEGIN SECOND PARAGRAPH
> 			BEGIN SUBPARAGRAPH
>
> Now the reason I'm posting to this list is that I can take a xsl:fo file
> and transform the text if I copy and paste it into the FO document and
> then run FOP on it.  The PDF that is generated is formatted perfectly.
> But when I do the transform to FO dynamically with XSL, it removes all
> the carriage returns/line feeds.
>
> Here's the XSL that I'm using for the element:
>
> <xsl:template match="LegacyTextData">
>        <fo:block font-size="9pt"
>                  font-family="Courier"
>                  line-height="12pt"
>                  text-align="left"
>                  white-space-collapse="false">
> 			<xsl:text>       </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="."
> />
> 	</fo:block>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> I can't use linefeed-treatment property since FOP doesn't support it.
> but the real  issue I'm having trouble with is that it appears that
> Xalan is stripping out the linefeeds which I thought the XSLT processor
> isn't supposed to do.
>
> I have also tried using xml:space="preserve" in the LegacyTextData
> element which did nothing, I also added the disable-output-
> escaping="yes" to the <xsl:value-of /> statement.
>
> any tips on what's going on would be appreciated.
>
>
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