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Reputation: 29

XSL FO inline without space between

I am trying to make pdf with inline blocs that are next to each other. For a reason i can not understand for the moment it seems to put spaces in between the outputs if there was nothing, for example (i selected the text to better show): <fo:inline>I</fo:inline><fo:inline>I</fo:inline> results in : example 1 the strange thing is that with text between the two those spaces disapear: <fo:inline>I</fo:inline>I<fo:inline>I</fo:inline> example 2

At the end i would like to do pdf from an udeterminated number of blox with xslt transformation, to be able to have results like this : strangely formated output and having space in the middle of words would not do it.

EDIT: for more precision i generate these elements by :

<xsl:for-each select="./*"><fo:inline><xsl:value-of select="."/></fo:inline></xsl:for-each>

or

<xsl:for-each select="./*"><fo:inline><xsl:value-of select="."/></fo:inline>I</xsl:for-each>

with nodes containing "I"s. but i got the same results by trying with manual generation. tried: with space between nodes, all together (no space between nodes), and commentaries.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1745

Answers (2)

T.S.
T.S.

Reputation: 29

I ended up finding a work around (i am not sure how much it is a good way to do it tough so i prefer to post it as "an answer instead of "the answer" ) if i put the tag:

<fo:block font-size="0px">
</fo:block>

around my inline tags, and then add a real size to my tags, i got the results i wanted. On a side not even the supplementary I characters diaper and can not be selected anymore. I guess the process of XSL-FO needs to be seen more as a "printing" then a text editing.

Upvotes: 0

Pierre Fran&#231;ois
Pierre Fran&#231;ois

Reputation: 6061

Try to introduce an empty comment like this:

<fo:inline>I</fo:inline><!--
--><fo:inline>I</fo:inline>

Upvotes: 0

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