Solution for section breaks

[Le Basque]

Hi,

I would like to section breaks using an attribute on topicref example base
idea :

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 <topicref format="dita" href="1.dita" scope="local" type="concept" base="BREAK"/>

Have you a solution ?

Thank you

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

What type of breaks do you want to have and where? Do you want a page break after each topic in the output of the DITA PDF transformation applied on a DITA map so that each topic starts on a new page in the PDF output? Do you want to use the DITA break attribute as a specialized attribute to insert some separator space (what would that separator break be?) between the current topicref and the next sibling topicref? In what type of output?


Regards,
Sorin

[Le Basque]

hi,

I would like to choose the page breaks from the topics of ditamap. If the user wants a page break before a topic then it sets an attribute on the topic.

Thank you

[sorin_ristache]

Where do you want to set the page break? Do you want it in the output of the DITA PDF transformation?


Regards,
Sorin

[Le Basque]

Hi,

Yes in the output of the DITA PDF transformation
What I tried to do that does not work:

DITAMAP :

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<topicref format="dita" href="1.dita" scope="local" type="concept" base="BREAK"/>

File customize :

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    <xsl:template match="*" mode="processTopic">

    	<xsl:variable name="id" select="@id"/>

		<xsl:variable name="topicref-base-att" select="concat(' ',lower-case(ancestor::*[contains(@class, ' map/map ')]/*[1]//*[contains(@class,' map/topicref ')][@id = $id]/@base),' ')"/>

<fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="topic">

	<xsl:if test="contains($topicref-base-att, '  BREAK ')">

		<xsl:attribute name="break-before">

			<xsl:text>page</xsl:text>

		</xsl:attribute>

	</xsl:if>

...

Thank you

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

That is a template that processes a topic, not the DITA map. Maybe it is easier if you set the attribute in the topic file, for example add the base attribute on the <topic> element.

If you want to keep the base attribute in the map file you have to find a template that processes the DITA map, but I think in this case it would be harder to find the place in the FO file where the page break should be inserted, when the topic file will be processed.


Regards,
Sorin