17.18.72 ST_PTabLeader

This simple type specifies the characters which can be used to fill in the space created by a positional tab. This character shall be repeated as required to completely fill the tab spacing generated by the positional tab character.

[Example: Consider a positional tab stop which should be preceded by a sequence of underscore characters, as follows:

______________Text at the positional tab stop

This tab stop would have a leader attribute value of underscore, indicating that the tab stop must be preceded by underscore characters as needed to fill the tab spacing. end example]

This simple type’s contents are a restriction of the W3C XML Schema string datatype.

This simple type is restricted to the values

listed in the following table:

Enumeration Value

Description

Specifies that the leader character for this positional tab stop shall be a dot.

Enumeration Value

[Example:

Description

……………………… Text at absolute tab.

end example]

Specifies that the leader character for this positional tab stop shall be a hyphen.

[Example:

———————- Text at absolute tab.

end example]

Specifies that the leader character for this positional tab stop shall be a centered dot.

[Example:

··························· Text at absolute tab.

end example]

Specifies that there shall be no leader character for this positional tab.

[Example:

Text at absolute tab.

end example]

Specifies that the leader character for this positional tab stop shall be an underscore.

[Example:

_____________ Text at absolute tab.

end example]

[Note: The W3C XML Schema definition of this simple type’s content model (ST_PTabLeader) is located in A.1. end note]