Re: [xsl] FO: Repeating Cell Content

[David Tolpin <dvd at renderx dot com>]

> 
> I think the answer is "no", but I'm wondering if there is any way in the
> current XSL-FO spec to create a table in which the content of a
> particular cell of a body row automatically repeats on every page that
> cell flows onto?
> 
> In my case, I have documents with tables where the first cell may span
> many rows and cross one or more pages. The requirement is to have the
> text in this cell, which functions semantically as a "row header" repeat
> automatically on each page. There is no way in the style sheet to
> predict which instances might break across pages or how many pages they
> might break across.
> 
> I can't think of any way to do this with XSL-FO out of the box (although
> I'm sure it would possible for FO implementations to provide extensions
> to do it). Is my analysis correct?
> 

Put a block-container with relative position in the table's repeating header.
Requires some fiddling with exact values, but will definitely work.

David Tolpin
RenderX

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