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Reputation: 803

XML-FO Nested List-Blocks

I am trying to convert a nested, bulleted list in HTML to XML-FO for output as a PDF in Apache FOP. The HTML looks like this

<ul>
   <li>Item Number1</li>
      <ul>
          <li>Sub-Item 1</li>
          <li>Sub-Item 2</li>
      </ul>
 </ul>

All of the XSLT I have tried creates a with an embedded for the subitems. FOP, however, complains that you can't have a list-block as a child of a list-block. Is this an issue with FOP? Or, is that simply not valid XML-FO and all of the XSLT examples are processing this construct incorrectly?

If it's the later, what is the proper XML-FO to produce a nested set of bullets like you would see in HTML?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 687

Answers (1)

G. Ken Holman
G. Ken Holman

Reputation: 4403

FOP is right to complain, the specification states a list-block cannot have a list-block as a child.

You need to create a ghost list item for the nested list, don't put a label on the item (thus making it a ghost item), and put the nested list into the body of the ghost item.

There is a helpful diagram on page 139 of my XSL-FO book that is available for free download on a "try and buy" basis at http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/training/#pfux ... if you decide not to pay for the book, please delete the copy that you download for free.

Upvotes: 2

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