[FOP-1308] Percentages in proportional-column-width() not supported

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.5
• Component/s: fo/unqualified
• Environment: Operating System: All; Platform: All
• External issue ID: 41631
• Assignee: fop-dev
• Reporter: Jeremias Maerki
• Created: 16/Feb/07 02:02
• Updated: 07/Feb/08 09:22
• Resolved: 01/Apr/12 06:26

Description

I've seen examples where a percentage was used in
proportional-column-width(numeric). FOP raises an error in this case, but I
think that's wrong. The spec says:
"Percentages are values that are counted in 1/100 units. That is, 10% as a
percentage value is 0.10 as a floating point number."
and
"For example, a value of "110%" on a "font-size" property would be evaluated to
mean 1.1 times the current font size. Such a definition of the allowed
conversion for percentages is specified on the property definition. If no
conversion is specified, the resulting value is a percentage."

http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#d0e5420

I interpret this so that the proportional-column-width(20%) is, in this case,
simply converted to the numeric value 0.2. So if you consistently use
percentages to specify the column widths you'd get the expected result.

Tasks:

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