Hello Eric,

are you sure that it doesn't work? I saw it and found nothing, tested it and
there was no problem - with MSXML and Xalan. Maybe you looked to fast
because the most of your <cell>s don't have an span-attribute.

Furthermore your <xsl:attribute> can't work, because you can't add the same
attribute multiple times (one for each <cell>).

Joerg

> Why can I not access the @span value in the XSL below, first the XML:
> ... and the XSL fragment:
>
> <xsl:template match="table">
>  <fo:table break-before="page">
>   <fo:table-column column-width="100pt"/>
>   <fo:table-column column-width="100pt"/>
>   <fo:table-column column-width="75pt"/>
>   <fo:table-column column-width="100pt"/>
>   <fo:table-column column-width="75pt"/>
>   <fo:table-column column-width="100pt"/>
>   <fo:table-column column-width="100pt"/>
>   <fo:table-body font-size="6pt" font-family="sans-serif">
>    <xsl:for-each select="row">
>     <fo:table-row>
>      <xsl:for-each select="cell">
>         <!-- <xsl:attribute
name="number-columns-spanned">5</xsl:attribute> nope :( -->
>         <fo:table-cell number-columns-spanned="{@span}" >
>        <fo:block>
>
> --
> Eric Smith - using xalan and fop


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