Re: xslfo table paging

On Wed, Jul 16 2008 14:06:20 +0100, max@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I'm trying to convert some XML into PDF via XSL:FO and XSLT. I have a
> (mostly) working XML schema and XSLT however I need to split some data
> into two columns over several pages and I can't get the data in the
> table to fill the left column on page one then the right column on
> page one and continued for pages two and three.

On your fo:region-body, add column-count="2" [1].

For the fo:block that span both columns, use span="all" [2].  Omit the
span property for blocks that fit in one column.

Regards,


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[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#column-count
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#span