Understanding keep rules

[mdslup]

I am having some trouble understanding how to keep certain things together when generating a PDF. For example, in my document, the "Hardware Installation" is the fourth topic in my map. It starts out like this:

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 <taskbody>

        <prereq id="prereq_k3t_gvb_cdb">

            <note type="warning"><b>These instructions should only be used by:</b><ul

                    id="ul_q34_jxb_cdb">

                    <li>Customers who are installing the product near an outlet</li>

                    <li>Professional electricians who are installing the product to a hardwired

                        electrical connection</li>

                </ul></note>

        </prereq>

However, in my PDF output, it displays as:

Hardware Installation
Warning: These instructions should only be used by:
--- Page Break ---
* Customers who are installing the product near an outlet
* Professional electricians who are installing the product to a hardwired electrical connection

How can I modify my custom dita plugin files to make these stay together?

[Radu]

Hi,

The default XSL template which matches <b> is located in OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR\frameworks\dita\DITA-OT2.x\plugins\org.dita.pdf2\xsl\fo\hi-domain.xsl and looks like this:

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    <xsl:template match="*[contains(@class,' hi-d/b ')]">

        <fo:inline xsl:use-attribute-sets="b">

            <xsl:call-template name="commonattributes"/>

            <xsl:apply-templates/>

        </fo:inline>

    </xsl:template>

maybe in your PDF customization stylesheets you could override it like this:

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    <xsl:template match="*[contains(@class,' topic/note ')]/*[contains(@class,' hi-d/b ')][count(preceding-sibling::*) = 0]">

        <fo:inline xsl:use-attribute-sets="b" keep-with-next="always">

            <xsl:call-template name="commonattributes"/>

            <xsl:apply-templates/>

        </fo:inline>

    </xsl:template>

Regards,
Radu