Ken,
starts-row= and ends-row=" is exactly what I needed.
Thank You !!
Jerry J
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Subject: RE: [xep-support] can the < > symbols be replaced with < and
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At 2007-10-14 18:26 -0400, Jerry Janofsky wrote:
>No, you are wrong, you said exactly what I wanted to hear, that is, after I
>got passed the momentary feeling of being insulted.
Then I sincerely apologize ... that was not my intention.
>I think you gave me the solution by saying, " did you consider
>the cell-based row-grouping strategy instead of the row-based
>row-grouping strategy and just use the starts-row= and ends-row=". I didn't
>know that existed and believe it might be the answer to my problem.
It is very useful for a class of problems where algorithmically
expressing row boundaries is easier than packaging row boundaries as
one is obliged to do in HTML.
>Also, I did think quite hard about fixing my problem and always try to have
>well constructed algorithms. My solution led me to an odd situation,
>however, where I was forced to use a CDATA on a <fo:table-row> and
></fo:table-row> because my XSLT document was not valid XML if I didn't use
>it.
I understand where you found yourself in order to create such a
construct, and as I said I've seen it before. Such an approach
really isn't necessary, though I grant that at times "row packaging"
solutions can be very, very challenging, sometimes involving
recursive calls while doing handstands in front of the
keyboard. It's the nature of the beast.
>It just seemed feasible to me that a processor, whether or not it is an
>HTML or XSL-FO processor, would understand that < is '<'. From your
>reaction, I guess there is something I am terribly confused about.
And not uncommon either ... but "markup is different than text" is
the foundation of XML and SGML. "<" is markup, "<" is text, both
are "less-than signs". Blurring the two would cause everything to
fall apart. Think of the need to present XSL-FO markup on the
printed page: those angle brackets must be escaped and treated as
text, not markup, or it would end up not showing. How would one know
which "<fo:table-row>" was text and which was an escaped row ending?
>However, thank you for responding so quickly. I am going to try the cell
>based solution. I think it is going to solve my problem.
I'm glad to hear that ... good luck in your work!
. . . . . . . . . . Ken
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