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Posted: **Tue Mar 13, 2012 8:21 pm**

I write a book with chapters containing DITA/concepts. At the end of the Chapter I present some examples using DITA/tasks. I would like to have a page break before the first task so it it appears on a new page.
How to achieve this?
I do not want to start a new chapter for the examples; they are part of the current chapter.
The ditamap looks like this:

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   <chapter href="Unit01-Overzicht-historie/U01-Title-page.dita">

      <topicref href="Unit01-Overzicht-historie/u01-topics.dita"/>

      <topicref href="Unit01-Overzicht-historie/uitputting-ipv4.dita"/>

      <topicref href="Unit01-Overzicht-historie/historie-ipv6.dita"/>

      <topicref href="Unit01-Overzicht-historie/eigenschappen-ipv6.dita"/>

      <topicref href="Unit01-Overzicht-historie/Adresnotatie.dita"/>

      <topicref href="Unit01-Overzicht-historie/Hierarchische-adressering.dita"/>

      <topicref href="Unit01-Overzicht-historie/adrestypen.dita"/>

      <topicref href="Unit01-Overzicht-historie/Adresbereiken.dita"/>

      <topicref href="Unit01-Overzicht-historie/Adresinstelling.dita"/>

      <topicref href="Unit01-Overzicht-historie/Pakket-formaat.dita"/>

      <topicref href="Unit01-Overzicht-historie/Transitie-technieken.dita"/>

      <topicref href="Unit01-Labs/unit01-Labs.dita">

         <topicref href="Unit01-Labs/ipv6-adressen-windows.dita"/>

The break should occur just before "Unit01-Labs/unit01-Labs.dita"

Posted: **Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:01 am**

Hi,

Oxygen uses the DITA Open Toolkit to publish DITA content to various output sources.

If you look in this XSL:

OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR/frameworks/dita/DITA-OT/demo/fo/xsl/fo/commons.xsl

there is an XSL template:

<xsl:template match="*[contains(@class, ' topic/topic ')]">

which at some stage contains a choose:

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 <xsl:when test="not(ancestor::*[contains(@class,' topic/topic ')])">

..............

 </xsl:when>

 <xsl:otherwise>.......

This choose statement creates a separate "<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">" for topics which are on the first level but does not create such a flow for topics which are on the second/third... levels.

In the "xsl:otherwise" you could prepend this code:

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  <xsl:if test="contains(@outputclass, 'LINE_BREAK')">

   <fo:block page-break-before="always"/>

 </xsl:if>

Then on the topic on which you want to force the line break you could set an attribute like:

<task id="taskId" outputclass="LINE_BREAK">....

There could be other possibilities to tackle this problem, this is what I thought of.

You can also try to ask this question on the DITA Users List:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/
Maybe they have better approaches.

Regards,
Radu

Posted: **Wed Mar 14, 2012 2:03 pm**

I solved it by modifing the

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

This works on the presumption that if a topic is that important to appear on a separate page, it has a title element. If the outputclass attribute contains the string "osa/page-break" on such a title, the following stylesheet modification will add an page-break-before="always" attribute to the output fo:block element.

Change:

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

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<fo:block>

  <xsl:call-template name="processAttrSetReflection">

     <xsl:with-param name="attrSet" select="$attrSet2"/>

     <xsl:with-param name="path" select="'../../cfg/fo/attrs/commons-attr.xsl'"/>

  </xsl:call-template>

  <!-- start extra lines -->

  <xsl:if test="contains(@outputclass,'osa/page-break')">

     <xsl:attribute name="page-break-before">always</xsl:attribute>

  </xsl:if>

  <!-- end extra lines -->

  <xsl:if test="$level = 1">

     <fo:marker marker-class-name="current-header">

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

     </fo:marker>

  </xsl:if>

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