RE: [xsl] FO: keep strength with larger than a page content

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

At 2004-08-20 06:59 +0300, Jarno.Elovirta@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > At 2004-08-19 16:59 +0300, Jarno.Elovirta@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > >Simply, is there a way around
> > ><http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect3/keepsNbreaks.html> "[I]n
> > XSL-FO 1.0
> > >there is no way to have an item that is too long for a page
> > begin at the
> > >top of a page"?
>
> That's actally a quote from you from the FAQ, and from that I understood 
> that you can't do it in XSL 1.0.

Yes, but your question is a lot more complex than just "force this to the 
top of a page" (which, indeed, cannot be done in and of itself) ... you 
specifically talk to the issue of keeping contained content together, which 
leads to the discussion of keep strength.

> where the item body contains e.g. large screen captures and will not fit 
> into a single page. If I set
>
>   fo:list-item-body keep-together="1"
>     fo:block keep-together="2"
>       fo:block
>       fo:external-graphic
>     fo:block keep-together="2"
>       fo:block
>       fo:external-graphic
>
> Then that should take care of it, but because I have no "wrapper blocks" 
> in the item body, so should I then create
>
>   fo:list-item-body keep-together="1"
>     fo:block keep-together="2"
>       fo:block
>       fo:external-graphic
>       fo:block
>       fo:external-graphic
>
> where the block on line two is there just to define the keep block?

Sounds good to me ... but I haven't tested it because there are no tools 
... it was exactly this, a very long list, where I tried to use it only to 
discover it wasn't supported.  At the end of my XSLT and XSL-FO books I 
have long lists of information (20-60 pages long), and I tried the nested 
higher values of keeps to keep items from breaking because I was using the 
same list construct as for short lists.

> Also, should one define the keep-together="1" in the list-item or the 
> list-item-body? Both

I do not know ... I'm looking forward to trying it when it is supported.

Good luck, Jarno!

......................... Ken

--
World-wide on-site corporate, govt. & user group XML/XSL training.
G. Ken Holman                 mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Crane Softwrights Ltd.          http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/
Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0    +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995)
Male Breast Cancer Awareness  http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/bc
Legal business disclaimers:  http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal