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Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Fop unable to render tables ? (without intervention ?)


Looks like you can add <xsl:attribute
name="keep-together.within-column">auto</xsl:attribute> to the
table.table.properties attribute set in your customization layer to
change the default behavior:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PageBreaking.html
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintTableStyles.html#table.table.pro
perties 
 
David

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kerry, Richard [mailto:richard.kerry@siemens.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 9:00 AM
> To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Fop unable to render tables ? 
> (without intervention ?)
> 
>  
> OK. I have some sort of progress.
> 
> I found an answer on mail-archive.com (*) which explains how 
> the keep-together on the fo:table block is unable to split 
> the table over several pages using 
> keep-together.within-column=auto because the surrounding 
> fo:block has keep-together.within-column=always.
> 
> I've got my document to display properly by editing the xsl-fo.
> This is, of course, a solution in the xsl-fo domain, and I 
> want to get a fix at the DocBook level.
> 
> I've used <?dbfo keep-together="auto" ?> within my DocBook 
> <table> to get the innermost of these set correctly, but I 
> need the parent block to somehow get the attribute changed.
> 
> Can I do this from the DocBook level ?  I don't want to need 
> to patch the fo to get the formatting to work.
> Do I need to put another <?dbfo keep-together="auto" ?> to 
> get the parent fo:block's attribute fixed ?
> If so, where should this be done ?
> Is there something else I need to change ?
> 
> 
> 
> Appreciatively,
> Richard.
> 
> 
> (*) 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org/msg07904
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kerry, Richard
> > Sent: 18 December 2007 11:16
> > To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Fop unable to render tables ? 
> > (without intervention ?)
> > 
> >  
> > I've tried setting fop1.extensions but I don't think it 
> does anything 
> > for me regarding tables.
> > It generates a bookmark-tree and gives a region the name 
> "blank-body".
> > 
> > One problem I'd had was that I'd missed the <colspec> 
> elements within 
> > the <tgroup>.  Having added those I'm no longer getting the many 
> > warnings about table-layout.
> > 
> > However, I am still gettting Fop attempting to place each 
> table on one 
> > page only, and I get the warnings shown below for the two 
> long tables.
> > I did get these when I sent my earlier message on this subject but 
> > thought the other messages, with their many repetitions, were more 
> > important, so I neglected to include them in my posting.  I think 
> > actually these are the most significant in that they are telling me 
> > directly that it has placed the long tables on single 
> pages.  There's 
> > nothing I can see in DocBook, or Chapter 30 of Rob 
> Stayton's book, to 
> > indicate that I need to tell it to split a table over 
> multiple pages - 
> > indeed I'd have thought it would default to doing so.  And I can't 
> > find any attributes or anything that looks like it will enable 
> > splitting tables across pages.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > These are the two warning messages that tell me directly that there 
> > are tables on pages 3 and 6 that can't be fitted onto the 
> single page.
> > 
> > 17-Dec-2007 13:34:20 org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.PageBreaker$1
> > notifyOverflow
> > WARNING: Content of the region-body on page 6 overflows the 
> available 
> > area in block-progression dimension. (fo:page-sequence, location:
> > 237/61)
> > 17-Dec-2007 13:34:20 org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.PageBreaker$1
> > notifyOverflow
> > WARNING: Content of the region-body on page 3 overflows the 
> available 
> > area in block-progression dimension. (fo:page-sequence, location:
> > 237/61)
> > 
> > 
> > Uncertainly,
> > Richard.
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Andrew McFarland [mailto:aamcfarland@gmail.com]
> > > Sent: 17 December 2007 15:49
> > > To: Kerry, Richard
> > > Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> > > Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Fop unable to render tables ? 
> > > (without intervention ?)
> > > 
> > > On 17/12/2007, Kerry, Richard <richard.kerry@siemens.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > <snip/>
> > > > Fop is version 0.94, which I think is the latest.
> > > <snip/>
> > > 
> > > Try setting fop1.extensions
> > > 
> > > http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/fo/fop1
> > > .extensions.html
> > > 
> > > Also read chapter 30 of the Sagehill book, 
> > > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Tables.html
> > > 
> > > And good luck. Tables drive me nuts :-)
> > > 
> > > Andrew
> > > --
> > > We can't change the past, but each of us, by challenging
> > prejudice and
> > > intolerance, can help to change the future.
> > > - Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Address at Holocaust Memorial Day,
> > Westminster
> > > Hall, London, 27th January 2005
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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