XSL-FO writes text above the line or fo: leader
I am creating a pdf from xml and xsl-fo and Apache FOP and I need to write text line by line. I mean something like a manual compilation form where you write first name, last name, etc. Something like this:
Name: ______John_________
but with a line also under the name. I tried to use fo: leader. Everything is in a table cell. With this code
<fo:table-cell column-number="3" font-size="10pt" number-columns-spanned="4">
<fo:block space-before="2mm" wrap-option="no-wrap" overflow="visible" margin-top="2mm" margin-left="3mm">
<xsl:value-of select="$element/value"/>
</fo:block>
<fo:block wrap-option="no-wrap" overflow="visible" margin-left="2mm" margin-top="0mm">
<fo:leader leader-length="130mm"
leader-pattern="rule"
rule-style="solid"
rule-thickness="0.1mm"
color="black"></fo:leader>
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
I get the line, but not immediately below the word, and if I set margin-top = "- 3mm" for the leader block, nothing changes. How can I get a result like this? Are there other ways?
Many thanks
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I got the result in a different way: fo:block border-bottom="solid" border-bottom-width="0.2mm"
did the trick. <fo:leader />
c is </fo:block>
needed to emphasize the meaning (in this example from John) is empty.
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell font-size="10pt">
<fo:block>
<xsl:text>Nome:</xsl:text>
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell font-size="10pt">
<fo:block border-bottom="solid" border-bottom-width="0.2mm">
<xsl:text>John</xsl:text>
<fo:leader />
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
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It's kind of a hack, but you can use fo:list-block
...
XSL-FO
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="my-page" page-width="8.5in" page-height="11in">
<fo:region-body margin="1in" margin-top="1.5in" margin-bottom="1.5in"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="my-page">
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<fo:table width="50%">
<fo:table-body>
<fo:table-row>
<fo:table-cell border-style="solid" padding="4px">
<fo:list-block provisional-distance-between-starts="15%">
<fo:list-item>
<fo:list-item-label end-indent="label-end()">
<fo:block>Name:</fo:block>
</fo:list-item-label>
<fo:list-item-body start-indent="body-start()">
<fo:block text-align="center" border-bottom-style="solid">John</fo:block>
</fo:list-item-body>
</fo:list-item>
</fo:list-block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
</fo:table-body>
</fo:table>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
PDF output (used by FOP 1.0)
You will probably need to play around with provisional-distance-between-starts
it to find out what will work for your data.
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