Re: [xsl] border around a long text spanned on mutiple page

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2010-05-08 07:50 -0700, Red Light wrote:
> hi,
>
> in my web page i got a rich input data field where a user can enter 
> a long text (4000word) and i want to print the report of this field 
> , the problem i want is that the text in pdf is printed in late say 
> 3 page ,  i put the text inside a table-row and i give her a border 
> , the problem is the table is spanned over 3page so the table has 
> the border-top in the 1 page and  the border-bottom is end 3page
>
> here is my xsl:fo code
>
> <fo:table-row border="1px solid black" 
> block-progression-dimension.minimum="15cm">
>     <fo:table-cell number-columns-spanned="2"  padding="0.2cm" >
>         <fo:block  font-size="11" font-family="Times" text-align="left" >
>        <xsl:value-of 
> select="string-length(/report/resTechContributionText1)"></xsl:value-of>
>         </fo:block>
>         <fo:block border="1px solid red"  font-size="11" 
> font-family="Times" text-align="left" 
> linefeed-treatment="preserve" > 
>
>        <xsl:value-of 
> select="/report/resTechContributionValue"></xsl:value-of> 
>
>
>         </fo:block>
>     </fo:table-cell>
> </fo:table-row>
>
>
> is it possible to have each part of the text on each page with a 
> full border around it (top/bottom/right/left) ?

Add the following to the border specification:

  border-before-width.conditionality="retain"
  border-after-width.conditionality="retain"

... and the borders at the before- and after-sides of the area will 
not be discarded.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

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