Last one was old version...here's the real thing...sorry!!!


Hi List Members,

Eliot and Ken - thanks for pointing me in the right direction...  This
is as far as I have gotten:

	<xsl:template match="ws:tab"> 
		<xsl:if test="position()=1"> 
			<fo:table> 
				<fo:table-body> 
					<fo:table-row> 
		</xsl:if> 
				
		<xsl:element name="fo:table-cell"> 
			<xsl:attribute name="width"> 
				<xsl:call-template name="compute-width"> 
					<xsl:with-param name="list"> 
						<xsl:choose> 
							<xsl:when
test="../@tabs"> 
	
<xsl:value-of select="../@tabs"/> 
							</xsl:when> 
							<xsl:otherwise> 
	
<xsl:variable name="styleName" select="../@style"/> 
	
<xsl:value-of
select="//ws:textStyle[@name=$styleName]/ws:blockAttr/@tabs"/> 
							</xsl:otherwise> 
						</xsl:choose> 
					</xsl:with-param> 
					<xsl:with-param name="curpos"> 
						<xsl:choose> 
							<xsl:when
test="preceding-sibling::ws:br"> 
	
<xsl:value-of select="count(../ws:tab)-position()"/> 
							</xsl:when> 
							<xsl:otherwise> 
	
<xsl:value-of select="position()"/> 
							</xsl:otherwise> 
						</xsl:choose> 
					</xsl:with-param> 
				</xsl:call-template> 
			</xsl:attribute> 
		</xsl:element> 
		<fo:block/> 
		<xsl:element name="fo:table-cell"> 
			<xsl:apply-templates/> 
		</xsl:element> 
				
		<xsl:if test="position()=../ws:tab[last()]"> 
					</fo:table-row> 
				</fo:table-body> 
			</fo:table> 
		</xsl:if> 		
	</xsl:template> 

First, it won't let me save this, because it doesn't like me opening
tags in one statement and closing them in another...any way I can get
around this?

Second...I've reached a wall with my new "get-width" template:

<xsl:template name="get-width"> 
	<xsl:param name="list"/> 
	<xsl:param name="curpos"/> 
	<xsl:variable name="nlist"
select="concat(normalize-space($list), ' ')"/> 
	<xsl:variable name="first" select="substring-before($nlist, '
')"/> 
	<xsl:choose> 
		<xsl:when test="$curpos=1"> 
			<xsl:value-of select="$first"/> 
		</xsl:when> 
		<xsl:otherwise> 
			<!--want list[curpos] - list[curpos-1]...I
think.  But how???--> 
		</xsl:otherwise> 
	</xsl:choose> 
</xsl:template> 

If the curpos(tab) is 1, then I can just output the first string.
However, I can't come up with an algorithm that works for the rest of
the items.  If curpos is 2 or 3, or 4 or whatever, I want the tab width
output to be list[curpos] - list[curpos-1] but I don't know how to
express that here.  It's driving me batty!

Thanks for all your help/advice with this stuff - in case you couldn't
already tell, I find this very!! confusing.

KP




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