OK, I checked this out, and it seems that FOP 0.95 knows how to keep an
ordinary table cell together, but it does not know how to keep a cell
together if it spans down to additional rows. That should probably be
reported as a bug on FOP, because it should work for spanned cells too.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcel Tromp" <>
Cc: <>
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 1:20 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] table vertical spans and page breaks
>I ended up fixing this by embedding tables in a table.
>
> Marcel
> --
>
>
> Marcel Tromp wrote:
>> I tried adding this, but it doesn't seem to work with fop 0.95: it still
>> breaks in the middle of a straddled cell.
>>
>> I also tried to do the same thing on table.row.properties and this didn't
>> work either.
>>
>> Marcel
>> --
>>
>> Bob Stayton wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> It isn't necessary to customize the template with match="entry" to add
>>> the keep-together properties, as there is a utility template named
>>> "table.cell.properties" that can accomplish that. This is a template,
>>> not an attribute-set, and is described in this section of my book:
>>>
>>> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PrintTableStyles.html#table.cell.properties
>>>
>>> Just add this to the customized template:
>>>
>>> <xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-column">always</xsl:attribute>
>>>
>>> Bob Stayton
>>> Sagehill Enterprises
>>>
>>>
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