Re: Problem with simplelist and pdf?

["Ken Morse" <kenneth.morse@gmail.com>]

I think I figured this out -- it does appear that the 1.72.0
stylesheets are missing some critical code. In fo/lists.xsl, the
original template for a vertical simplelist looks like:

<xsl:template match="simplelist[@type='vert']">
  <fo:table xsl:use-attribute-sets="normal.para.spacing">
    <xsl:call-template name="simplelist.table.columns">
...

Note that layout and width information is not being set for <fo:table>
-- both of which appear to by required by FOP 0.93.

If I duplicate the section from the horizontal simplelist and change
the template to:

<xsl:template match="simplelist[@type='vert']">

  <xsl:variable name="table.width">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="$explicit.table.width != ''">
        <xsl:value-of select="$explicit.table.width"/>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="$default.table.width = ''">
        <xsl:text>100%</xsl:text>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:value-of select="$default.table.width"/>
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:variable>

  <fo:table xsl:use-attribute-sets="normal.para.spacing">
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="$axf.extensions != 0 or $xep.extensions != 0">
        <xsl:attribute name="table-layout">auto</xsl:attribute>
        <xsl:if test="$explicit.table.width != ''">
          <xsl:attribute name="width"><xsl:value-of
                             select="$explicit.table.width"/></xsl:attribute>
        </xsl:if>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:attribute name="table-layout">fixed</xsl:attribute>
        <xsl:attribute name="width"><xsl:value-of
                                      select="$table.width"/></xsl:attribute>
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
    <xsl:call-template name="simplelist.table.columns">
...

then everything appears to work just fine. I'm not sure why the
table-layout and width attributes were set for a horizontal list but
not a vertical list since they are both implemented with tables -- but
perhaps it is just an oversight in fo/lists.xsl.

Ken

On 5/2/07, Ken Morse <kenneth.morse@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm seeing a problem where a simplelist doesn't appear to be formatted
> correctly for FOP:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
> "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd";>
> <book>
>   <chapter id="ch1">
>     <title>simplelist</title>
>     <simplelist type="vert" columns="1">
>       <member>List item 1</member>
>       <member>List item 2</member>
>       <member>List item 3</member>
>     </simplelist>
>   </chapter>
> </book>
>
> I run the commands:
> tools\xsltproc --stringparam fop1.extensions 1 --stringparam hyphenate
> false --output testsimplelist.fo xsl\1.72.0\fo\docbook.xsl
> testsimplelist.xml
>
> tools\fop\fop.bat -fo testsimplelist.fo -pdf testsimplelist.pdf
>
> and get the output:
> May 2, 2007 9:05:10 AM org.apache.fop.fo.FONode attributeWarning
> WARNING: Warning(2/48408): fo:table, table-layout="auto" is currently
> not supported by FOP
> May 2, 2007 9:05:10 AM org.apache.fop.fo.PropertyList convertAttributeToProperty
> SEVERE: Ignoring property: column-width="proportional-column-width(1)"
> (file:///C:/DocBook/testsimplelist.fo:2:48408:
> proportional-column-width() function may only be used when fo:table
> has table-layout="fixed".; property:'column-width')
>
> I'm using FOP 0.93 and the 1.72.0 version of the stylesheets on
> Windows XP. Is this perhaps a problem with the FO stylesheets not
> building a table for simplelist that FOP can deal with?
>
> Ken
>