Table column proportional values

Hello everyone,

I started paying attention to the warning messages that FOP puts out and discovered an issue in one of my tables. It appears that the 'colwidth' attribute is a bit touchy with the values that it gets. If a value is specified as "1*" it will not generate the proportional XSL-FO code that it needs and then out puts a message:

WARNING: table-layout="fixed" and column-width unspecified => falling back to proportional-column-width(1) (See position 560:47)

This in itself is not a big problem, but when tracking down why it did that, the 1.75.2 version of the stylesheets emits some code that doesn't seem right. I'm using XSLTPROC but I get the same results with Saxon 6.5.5 and without any customization layer.

Example 1:
                <colspec colname="c1" colwidth="1*" align="left"/>
                <colspec colname="c2" colwidth="2*" align="left"/>
                <colspec colname="c3" colwidth="2*" align="left"/>

produces in the FO file:
      <fo:table-column column-number="1"/>
          <fo:table-column column-number="2" column-width="proportional-column-width(2)"/>
          <fo:table-column column-number="3" column-width="proportional-column-width(2)"/>

and thus produces the warning. Whereas changing the '1*' to '3*' in the first column produces no warning.

Example 2:
                <colspec colname="c1" colwidth="3*" align="left"/>
                <colspec colname="c2" colwidth="2*" align="left"/>
                <colspec colname="c3" colwidth="2*" align="left"/>

produces in the FO file:
          <fo:table-column column-number="1" column-width="proportional-column-width(3)"/>
          <fo:table-column column-number="2" column-width="proportional-column-width(2)"/>
          <fo:table-column column-number="3" column-width="proportional-column-width(2)"/>

Obviously the work around is to refrain from using '1*' in our tables but that would be a pain. Is this an error in the stylesheets or my thinking/processing?

Regards,
Dean Nelson

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