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RE: Balancing Columns
- From: "Andrew Welch" <andrew at thebristoldirectory dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:33:00 -0000
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Balancing Columns
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Could this be another example of my string splitting templates... now known
as the welchian method with patents pending (with of course, approval by
default)
Many, many thanks :)
//put this template in between your <td> and </td>
//remember to change $yourTextString (!)
//and string size to what you want
<xsl:call-template name="text_wrapper">
<xsl:with-param name="Text" select="$yourTextString"/>
</xsl:call-template>
//this will display the first 30 chars of $Text then pass the rest to
wrapper_helper
//if no string is left it will stop
<xsl:template name="text_wrapper">
<xsl:param name="Text"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="string-length($Text)">
<xsl:value-of select="substring($Text,1,30)"/><br/>
<xsl:call-template name="wrapper_helper">
<xsl:with-param name="Text" select="substring($Text,31)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
no more string!
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
//this will also display 30 chars of the string, and pass the rest back to
text_wrapper
<xsl:template name="wrapper_helper">
<xsl:param name="Text"/>
<xsl:value-of select="substring($Text,1,30)"/><br/>
<xsl:call-template name="text_wrapper">
<xsl:with-param name="Text" select="substring($Text,31)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of W. Eliot
Kimber
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 3:00 PM
To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
Subject: Re: [xsl] Balancing Columns
"G. Ken Holman" wrote:
>
> At 2002-01-23 11:42 -0600, W. Eliot Kimber wrote:
> >Is there a way to get balanced columns in a multi-column page layout?
>
> Columns in a page are always balanced, in that the simple page geometry
> only provides for a column count and a column gap ... thus, the column
> widths are always equal.
I think you've misunderstood what I mean by "balanced columns". I don't
mean columns of equal width, but columns in which the composed text is
of equal depth across the columns, e.g.:
xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx
Not:
xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxx
Cheers,
Eliot
ISOGEN International, LLC
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