Rotated text in table cell rendered above cell not within

Question

I have the following template to generate a table defined:

<xsl:template name="CreateTable">
    <fo:block>
        <fo:table border-style="solid" table-layout="fixed">
            <fo:table-body>
                <fo:table-row>
                    <xsl:for-each select="Table/Head/Cell">
                        <fo:table-cell border-style="solid">
                            <fo:block><xsl:value-of select="." /></fo:block>
                        </fo:table-cell>
                    </xsl:for-each>
                </fo:table-row>
                <xsl:for-each select="Table/Row">
                    <fo:table-row>
                        <xsl:for-each select="Cell">
                            <fo:table-cell  border-style="solid">
                                <fo:block><xsl:value-of select="."/></fo:block>
                            </fo:table-cell>
                        </xsl:for-each>
                    </fo:table-row>
                </xsl:for-each>
            </fo:table-body>
        </fo:table>
    </fo:block>
    <fo:block margin-top="10pt"/>
</xsl:template>

Now I want to rotate the text in the first row by 90 degrees so it is to be read from bottom up.

The best solution I came up with is to:

• set a reference-orientation="0" on <fo:table>:

  <fo:table border-style="solid" table-layout="fixed" reference-orientation="0">
  

• enclose the <fo:block>...</fo:block> within the <fo:table-cell> with a <fo:block-container> rotated by 90 degrees:

  <fo:table-cell border-style="solid">
      <fo:block-container reference-orientation="90">
          <fo:block><xsl:value-of select="." /></fo:block>
      </fo:block-container>
  </fo:table-cell>
  

The text is rotate but the height of the first row is effectively 0 and the text is displayed above the table overlaying previous text:

When defining a specific height for the cells of the first row, the text is still before the table and not within the first row:

How can I position the text within the cells of the first row and have the height of the row computed automatically depending on the longest text within the row?

Answer 1

Text displaying outside the table: the fo:block inside the table cell may be inheriting settings like a left margin from an enclosing block.

The cell height problem I haven't seen before, in Antennahouse Formatter you can rotate cell content and IIRC the cell will be resized appropriately.