Preventing contents of the row from disappering

[shiney_98]

Hi,

I want to keep my contents of the row on the same page , so I've used keep-together.within-page="always" on fo:table-row and I'm getting expected output i.e. when the contents of the row are more, it is moving to next page with the header rows.

But, when the contents of the row exceeds more than one page, the contents are getting disappeared. I want the contents to move to next page if it exceeds more than one page i.e. page break inside those rows are acceptable but when the contents are small it should move to next page. Any Ideas?

[julien_lacour]

Hello,

Usually in DITA Map PDF - based on XSL-FO transformation, table rows are generated like this:

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<xsl:template match="*[contains(@class, ' topic/tbody ')]/*[contains(@class, ' topic/row ')]">
  <fo:table-row xsl:use-attribute-sets="tbody.row">
    <xsl:call-template name="commonattributes"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </fo:table-row>
</xsl:template>
...
<xsl:attribute-set name="tbody.row">
  <!--Table body row-->
  <xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-page">always</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:attribute-set>
 

By adding the following template you can create rows without the keep-together.within-page="always" attribute:

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<xsl:template match="*[contains(@class, ' topic/tbody ')]/*[contains(@class, ' topic/row ') 
  and @outputclass='break-on-two-pages')]">
  <fo:table-row>
    <xsl:call-template name="commonattributes"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </fo:table-row>
</xsl:template>

After adding the previous template, in your DITA source you must add the @outputclass="break-on-two-pages" attribute on the rows that must not be kept on the same page.

You can run the transformation with the 'clean.temp=no' parameter then check the topic.fo file.
It must not contain <fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"> on the rows marked with the outputclass.

Regards,
Julien