Re: Clarification for tables: grid units, border-resolution and breaks

I am trying to do the following
< fo:table-cell
         border-left-color="green"  border-left-style="dotted"
         border-top-color="red"  border-top-style="dotted"
         border-right-color="blue"  border-right-style="dotted"
         border-bottom-color="yellow" border-bottom-style="dotted"
>
in fop-0.20.5 , also tried the dashed but it is taking only solid as border
of cell not dotted or dashed,
How we can make the cell border dashed or dotted,
is it a known bug or i am missing some thing ?
 is there any work around for it?
regards
Arun

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vincent Hennebert" <vincent.hennebert@anyware-tech.com>
To: <xsl-editors@w3.org>
Cc: <fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 3:20 PM
Subject: Clarification for tables: grid units, border-resolution and breaks


> Dear XSL Editors,
>
> Questions were recently raised on the fop-dev mailing lists about
> tables, borders and breaks. We finally all came to the same conclusions
> but I think it might be useful to add some statements to the XSL-FO
> Recommendation, in order to ease the understanding for newcomers.
>
>
> Grid units and area tree
>
> It seems that the notion of grid unit is to be understood in terms of
> area tree instead of fo tree. This is not obvious in the Recommendation
> and it might help to explicitely write that. For example, when
> a table-cell is broken over two pages, does it make one broken grid unit
> or two separate ones? Thinking in term of FO tree, that would be one; in
> term of area tree, that would be two. This is important for border
> resolution, as we can see below.
>
>
> Border-resolution in the collapsing-border model
>
> For the (cells of the) first row of a table, border-before on the
> fo:table and applicable fo:table-column objects play into border
> resolution. When the table is broken accross several pages, do they also
> play for the first row of each page? Or only the very first row of the
> table? We agreed upon yes. This means that if
> border-conditionality="retain" on fo:table, then it will appear on each
> page (if it wins in the border resolution), which would be the same
> behavior as in the separate-border model.
>
> But if the fo:table-header is not omitted at page breaks, how should
> border resolution be performed? Technically, the areas generated by the
> table-cell children of fo:table-header are /replicated/ on each new
> page, so they would have the is-first trait set to true. So assuming
> that the conditionality of the fo:table's border-before is "discard",
> should it play or not in the border resolution of table-headers on the
> second and following pages?
>
>
> Border-resolution and breaks
>
> For simplicity let's assume we are inside a single table-body. The
> question is the same if we are at the boundary between two table-bodies,
> only the border-after/-before of the table-bodies will also play in the
> resolution.
> The border-after of a cell is to be determined from:
> - the table-cell's border-after;
> - the containing table-row's border-after;
> - the following table-row's border-before;
> - the border-before of the cell below.
>
> If a break occurs /within/ a cell, should the following row and cell
> still play in the border-resolution? We agreed upon not.
>
> If a break occurs between two cells:
> - should a full border appear at the bottom of the page (or column) and
>   a full border at the top of the following page (column)? Or only half
>   a border on each? We agreed upon the former.
> - like above, should the two cells and table-rows play in the
>   border-resolution of each border? Or only the previous cell and row
>   for the border-after on the first page and the following cell and row
>   for the border-before on the following page? We agreed upon the
>   latter.
>
> Those questions are easily answered if we consider that the table is
> divided into independant grids on each page. Thus there would be a grid
> line at the top and bottom of each page. Such a scheme would be logical
> if grid units are entities which belong in the area tree.
>
> If on the contrary the table must be thought as a single grid which then
> is broken down on several pages (more on the FO tree side), then the
> answers to these questions tend to be different.
>
> That's why it may be useful to state that grid units pertain to the area
> tree, and that border-resolution is performed on them at the area-tree
> level.
>
>
> Explicit breaks on table-header and -footer
>
> I don't think it makes much sense to set the break-before and
> break-after properties on fo:table-row and children of fo:table-cell
> which are themselves children of fo:table-header and fo:table-footer
> elements. It might be helpful to explicitely state that in the
> descriptions of break-before and break-after.
>
> I hope I was myself clear!
>
> Thanks,
> Vincent Hennebert

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