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The treatment of white space at a line break point is different in V2/V3.0/V3.1R1 and V3.1MR1.
In XSL Formatter V2/V3.0/V3, the treatment of white space at a line-break point is specified by suppress-at-line-break property.
7.16.3 "suppress-at-line-break"
Initial value of suppress-at-line-break is auto, and code point U+0020 is treated as if 'suppress' had been specified. As a result, the generated area is deleted.
To retain white space at line-break point, please specify usage-context-of-suppress-at-line-break="ignore" such as:
<fo:block white-space-collapse="false" usage-context-of-suppress-at-line-break="ignore">
 
</fo:block>.
usage-context-of-suppress-at-line-break (UCSLB) property was introduced in Errata in REC-xsl-20011015.
In current XSL 1.0 Errata, the specification of suppress-at-linebreak and white-space-treatment are changed, and usage-context-of-suppress-at-line-break is deleted. Before it was changed, the following specifications had been defined.
7.16.4 "usage-context-of-suppress-at-line-break"
XSL Definition:
Value: auto | observe | ignore | inherit
Initial: auto
Applies to: fo:block, fo:inline, fo:page-number, fo:page-number-citation
Inherited: yes
Percentages: N/A
Media: visual
This property specifies the usage context of the character property
"suppress-at-line-break". It specifies if this character property
should apply or not.
Values for this property have the following meanings:
auto
If the value of the "wrap-option" trait on the current formatting
object to which the "usage-context-of-suppress-at-line-break"
applies is "no-wrap", the "auto" value specifies the same processing
of descendant fo:character formatting objects as if "ignore" had been
specified for the "usage-context-of-suppress-at-line-break" property.
Otherwise it specifies the same processing of descendant fo:character
formatting objects as if "observe" had been specified for the
"usage-context-of-suppress-at-line-break" property.
observe
Specifies that descendant fo:character formatting objects should be
treated using the computed value of the "suppress-at-line-break" property
of the fo:character formatting object.
ignore
Specifies that descendant fo:character formatting objects should be
treated as if the "suppress-at-line-break" property of the fo:character
formatting object had the value "retain".
It may control the suppress-at-line-break (SLB) property as follows:
| |
wrap-option |
| wrap (initial) |
no-wrap |
| |
SLB |
SLB |
| auto |
suppress |
retain |
auto |
suppress |
retain |
U
C
S
L
B |
auto |
D |
D |
R |
R |
R |
R |
| observe |
D |
D |
R |
D |
D |
R |
| ignore |
R |
R |
R |
R |
R |
R |
- R: white space is retained.
- D: white space is deleted.
In XSL Formatter, suppress-at-line-break is not supported.
Therefore, it is processed as an initial value "auto".
However, this property cannot be specified for fo:block even if supported.
The reason is that this property is applied to fo:character, and it is not inherited. Therefore, it is necessary to specify property by using fo:character as follows.
<fo:block>
<fo:character character="' '" suppress-at-line-break="retain"/>
</fo:block>
XSL Formatter supports usage-context-of-suppress-at-line-break.
Therefore, when usage-context-of-suppress-at-line-break="ignore" is specified, the space is not deleted in suppress-at-line-break="auto".
XSL Formatter V3.1MR1 changed the processing of white-space-treatment and suppress-at-line-break according to latest XSL 1.0 Errata and XSL 1.1 WD. If white-space-treatment="preserve" is specified, the white space of line-break point is retained. And usage-context-of-suppress-at-line-break is maintained for compatibility. If the value is auto, it works as observe. ( If value is auto and wrap-option="no-wrap", it works as ignore before these are changed. ) If usage-context-of-suppress-at-line-break="ignore" is specified, the white space is retained as well as before.
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