Re: Formatting of empty elements

Mathias Berger wrote:
> I am having problems with formatting of empty blocks and table cells. It
> seems that the formatting of these empty elements is not possible. See
> my attached FO, all affected elements are formatted with Arial 10pt.
> When opening the output RTF document

The output.rtf file you sent us is in fact an ODT file, which I cannot 
open in Word. But never mind...



> it seems that this attributes are
> getting ignored, the empty table cells as well as the empty block are
> formatted by Word. Depending on the version of Word the Font is “Times
> 12pt” (2003) or “Calibri 11pt” (2007). As you can see in my attached FO
> file the table cells are set to Arial 10pt, as well as the empty block
> at the end of the document.
>

After generating output.rtf using XMLmind XSL-FO Converter 4.5, I cannot 
reproduce what you describe. See attached screenshots. But never mind 
that too...



> My question now is: Is there any way to format these empty elements?
> It’s pretty much important because this brakes our table formatting –
> the line spacing of the table rows is getting different in output
> documents.
>
> XMLmind XSL-FO Converter v4.2p1

This old version is no longer supported. However I don't see why v4.5 
would differ from v4.2p1 when it comes to empty table cells.



>
> Platform: Java
>
> Target Word Processor: MS-Word 2003 / 2007

--> My advice is to never generate empty table cells. Instead please 
consider generating table cells containing a block containing a single 
non-breaking space character ( ). This is what I do in all my own 
XSLT stylesheets and it works fine. See attached screenshots 
*_with_nbsp.png.

 
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