<?Surf version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<fo:root Surfns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
 <fo:layout-master-set>
 <fo:simple-page-master page-height="11in" page-width="8.5in" margin-left="1.0in" margin-top="0.2in" margin-bottom="1.0in" margin-right="1.0in" master-name="test-page-master">
 <fo:region-body margin-left="1.0in" margin-top="0.2in" margin-right="1.0in" margin-bottom="1.0in"/>
 </fo:simple-page-master>
 </fo:layout-master-set>
 <fo:page-sequence master-name="test-page-master">
 <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
 <fo:table> <fo:table-column column-width="1.0in"/> <fo:table-column column-width="1.0in"/> <fo:table-body> <fo:table-row> <fo:table-cell background-color="red"> <fo:block>The next cell is empty and should not be shown at all.</fo:block> </fo:table-cell> <fo:table-cell empty-cells="hide"> <fo:block/> </fo:table-cell> </fo:table-row> </fo:table-body>
 </fo:table>
 </fo:flow>
 </fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>