Wrapping text within table row

[el1986]

I'm trying to display line items of an order/invoice, it all works fine if the line items description isn't too long. However when it becomes too long the description wraps which is what i want to happen but it seems to move onto the whole descripion onto the next row.
So the first row contains the details of the 1st line item (with a blank cell where the description should be), the 2nd line contains the description in the correct column, the 3rd colum contains the details of the 2nd line item (with a blank cell where the description should be), the 4th line contains the description of the 2nd line item. So something like this:

Line No     Description     Value
1                                    10
               wrapped
               description
2                                    20
               wrapped
               description2


So i want the description to start on the same row as the rest of the line item details.
This is what i have for the cell.

<fo:table-cell border-style="none" border-width="2pt" background-repeat="repeat" display-align="start">
      <fo:block>
            <fo:block>
                    <xsl:value-of select="def:LineItem/def:Item/def:Description"/>
            </fo:block>
       </fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>

I'm not experienced in xsl-fo at all, so any help would be appreciated.
Thanks in Advance

[Tony Graham-3]

On Mon, Jul 14 2008 15:56:54 +0100, elin.lloyd@... wrote:
> I'm trying to display line items of an order/invoice, it all works fine if
> the line items description isn't too long. However when it becomes too long
> the description wraps which is what i want to happen but it seems to move
> onto the whole descripion onto the next row.
> So the first row contains the details of the 1st line item (with a blank
> cell where the description should be), the 2nd line contains the description
> in the correct column, the 3rd colum contains the details of the 2nd line
> item (with a blank cell where the description should be), the 4th line
> contains the description of the 2nd line item. So something like this:

If you showed the borders of the cells -- e.g., if you added
border="solid black thin" or border-style="solid" -- then you'd see
whether you had blank cells or a block with space before it.

It might also make things clearer if, for the sake of seeing what's
what, you gave a different background-color value to the block within
the table-cell.

...

> So i want the description to start on the same row as the rest of the line
> item details.
> This is what i have for the cell.
>
> <fo:table-cell border-style="none" border-width="2pt"
> background-repeat="repeat" display-align="start">
>       <fo:block>
>             <fo:block>
>                     <xsl:value-of
> select="def:LineItem/def:Item/def:Description"/>
>             </fo:block>
>        </fo:block>
> </fo:table-cell>

I don't know why you'd need two nested fo:block.  One should be sufficient.

We can't tell anything about your XPath because you didn't provide a
sample of your input XML.

It might also help if you showed the complete FO markup for a one-row
invoice table.

> I'm not experienced in xsl-fo at all, so any help would be appreciated.

It might help you if you do the transform to the FO vocabulary using an
XSLT processor then play around with that file and run that through your
XSL formatter to see if you can see what's causing the problem, and then
modify your XSLT so it produces the correct FO markup once you know what
the correct markup is.

Regards,


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