Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: List builder and column widths of generated tables

6: Re: List builder and column widths of generated tables (response to 5)

Posted by Jeff Davis on 12/04/03 02:40 PM

Are you sure the code is really being executed? You might want to put an ns_log statment in there. Also, an alternative (since it seems the list_properties.colspec var does wind it's way through) is to use the <list> tag to generate the colspec.

Out of curiousity, what are you using to xform html to fo (is it some standard xsl or something you wrote yourself)?

I have been using docbook-xsl and FOP to produce PDFs and have been ok with the output although I see a lot of shortcomings with FOP for realistic sized documents.

7: Re: List builder and column widths of generated tables (response to 6)

Posted by Andrei Popov on 12/04/03 03:09 PM

Yeah, code is being executed all right. I had ns_log in there and -colspec gets read and if you call template::multirow size it returns 6 -- the number of rows in the created multirow!

I am using XHTML2FO XSL stylesheet as picked up from Antenna House website here: http://www.antennahouse.com/XSLsample/XSLsample.htm

Works very well. What I do is a bit of a hack, really: I fetch (rather wget) the page, pass it through tidy to make sure that all that has to be quoted is, then apply XSL transformation using xsltproc. Once .fo is generated I use FOP to produce a .pdf out of it.