Re: [xsl] dynamic table in report

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

At 2011-08-03 10:14 +0200, Mathis Mvrke wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to display a table in a pdf-file. The problem is that the
> number of rows is dynamic. Furthermore the rows form thematic
> clusters. As an example:
>
> cluster A
> subcluster A.1
> data 1
> data 2
> data 3
> ..
> subcluster A.2
> data i
> data i+1
> ...
> cluster B
> subcluster B.1
> data j
> data j+1
> ..
>
> The number of rows in each subcluster is dynamicand I want to have a
> page breaks after a subcluster. That means, if a subcluster does not
> fit on the currrent page, the whole subcaption-cluster should be on
> the next page. It is not necessary that each cluster is on the same
> page, only subcluster. I used for each row a fo:block element and set
> the keep-with-previous attribute to handle it and it works.

I think you are approaching this at too low a level.

> But if
> there are to many rows in a subcluster, there will be a page overflow,
> which makes sense. But how can I handle this? If the number of rows in
> a subcluster is too big, there should be automatically a page break.

Many of my students are surprised that XSL-FO
allows many <table-body> constructs within a
single <table> and your use-case is an ideal
situation in which to take advantage of this.

Simply put each sub-cluster into a separate
<table-body> and use
keep-together.within-column="always" on that body
segment.  No other keeps are needed.

> I am using Apache FOP 0.95.

I have no idea if the example below works in
FOP.  It works with three other XSL-FO tools I've tested it with this
morning.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?><!--mathis.fo-->
<root xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";
      font-family="Times" font-size="20pt">

  <layout-master-set>
    <simple-page-master master-name="frame"
                        page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
                        margin-top="15mm" margin-bottom="15mm"
                        margin-left="15mm" margin-right="15mm">
      <region-body region-name="frame-body"/>
    </simple-page-master>
  </layout-master-set>

  <page-sequence master-reference="frame">
    <flow flow-name="frame-body" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";>
      <block>This is a test</block>
      <table>
        <table-body keep-together.within-column="always">
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
1</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
1</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
1</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
1</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
1</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
1</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
1</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
1</block></table-cell></table-row>
        </table-body>
        <table-body keep-together.within-column="always">
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
          <table-row><table-cell><block>Test
2</block></table-cell></table-row>
        </table-body>
      </table>
    </flow>
  </page-sequence>
</root>

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