Re: [xep-support] fo:table and height attribute

At 2005-08-18 15:41 +0200, Sander Pilon wrote:
>I'm trying to generate a table with a specific height, but it doesn't
>seem to do what I want. Here's the XSL:
>...
>I can change the height to about anything, but it will not change the
>height!

The construct I usually use to allocate space in the
block-progression direction is <block-container>. Using height= on
<table-cell> or <table-row> also works.

     <flow flow-name="frame-body" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
       <fo:block>This is a test</fo:block>
<fo:table width="130mm" border="2pt solid red"
background-color="rgb-icc(0,0,153,cmyk,1,0.79,0,0)">
     <fo:table-body>
         <fo:table-row>
             <fo:table-cell>
               <fo:block-container height="25mm">
                 <fo:block font-family="verdana"
color="rgb-icc(255,255,255,cmyk,0,0,0,0)" font-size="31pt">
                         XX
                 </fo:block>
               </fo:block-container>
             </fo:table-cell>
         </fo:table-row>
     </fo:table-body>
</fo:table>
       <fo:block>This is a test</fo:block>
<fo:table width="130mm" border="2pt solid red"
background-color="rgb-icc(0,0,153,cmyk,1,0.79,0,0)">
     <fo:table-body>
         <fo:table-row>
             <fo:table-cell height="25mm">

                 <fo:block font-family="verdana"
color="rgb-icc(255,255,255,cmyk,0,0,0,0)" font-size="31pt">
                         XX
                 </fo:block>

             </fo:table-cell>
         </fo:table-row>
     </fo:table-body>
</fo:table>
       <fo:block>This is a test</fo:block>
<fo:table width="130mm" border="2pt solid red"
background-color="rgb-icc(0,0,153,cmyk,1,0.79,0,0)">
     <fo:table-body>
         <fo:table-row height="25mm">
             <fo:table-cell>
                 <fo:block font-family="verdana"
color="rgb-icc(255,255,255,cmyk,0,0,0,0)" font-size="31pt">
                         XX
                 </fo:block>
             </fo:table-cell>
         </fo:table-row>
     </fo:table-body>
</fo:table>
       <fo:block>This is a test</fo:block>
<fo:table width="130mm" height="25mm" border="2pt solid red"
background-color="rgb-icc(0,0,153,cmyk,1,0.79,0,0)">
     <fo:table-body>
         <fo:table-row>
             <fo:table-cell>
                 <fo:block font-family="verdana"
color="rgb-icc(255,255,255,cmyk,0,0,0,0)" font-size="31pt">
                         XX
                 </fo:block>
             </fo:table-cell>
         </fo:table-row>
     </fo:table-body>
</fo:table>
       <fo:block>This is a test</fo:block>
<fo:table width="130mm" block-progression-dimension="25mm"
border="2pt solid red"
background-color="rgb-icc(0,0,153,cmyk,1,0.79,0,0)">
     <fo:table-body>
         <fo:table-row>
             <fo:table-cell>
                 <fo:block font-family="verdana"
color="rgb-icc(255,255,255,cmyk,0,0,0,0)" font-size="31pt">
                         XX
                 </fo:block>
             </fo:table-cell>
         </fo:table-row>
     </fo:table-body>
</fo:table>
       <fo:block>This is a test</fo:block>

Interestingly, I'm getting different background results from
different formatters when using height on <table>, but they agree
that the cell size is not the table size.

The XSL specification builds on the CSS2 specification but according
to a note in 6.7.3 "The CSS2 specification explicitly does not
specify what the behavior should be if there is a mismatch between an
explicitly specified table block-progression-dimension and the
block-progression-dimensions of the content." Probably why I'm
seeing different results in different processors.

Section 6.7.3 does explicitly say that the height is based on the
"block-progression-dimension" trait, which defaults to "auto", which
means the height is "auto". Reading 7.14.1 it would seem that
height= does not play into the table's height, yet I'm getting
identical results when I replace height= with
block-progression-dimension= so I'm not sure what is in play
here. My guess is that a table's height is always the height of its
content (though I don't see that in section 6.7.3).

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . Ken

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