I'm not sure it will solve all of your table issues, but try this in
your customization to get the table to break across pages:
<xsl:attribute-set name="formal.object.properties">
<xsl:attribute name="keep-together.within-column">auto</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:attribute-set>
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/PageBreaking.html#KeepTogetherPIAntti Karanta wrote:
>
>
> Hi!
>
> I am doing some testing on docbook style sheets. I ran into a
> problem trying to transform docbook-xsl-1.73.2/roundtrip/supported.xml
> docbook xml document into pdf. In the document, there is a single
> large table. When rendered, the table contains overlapping text, which
> looks really bad. The table is also rendered on a single page, with
> only the last 10 lines visible, the rest are nowhere to be seen.
>
>
> Here's what I do:
>
> C:\downloaded\docbook>C:\programs\Java\jdk1.6.0_03\bin\java -Xss1m -cp
> C:\programs\Java\saxon655\saxon.jar;C:\work\napa\jnapa\commons\lib\batik\xercesImpl.jar;C:\downloaded\docbook\docbook-xsl-1.73.2\extensions\saxon65.jar
> -Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl
> -Djavax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl
> com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet -o c:\Temp\temp.fo
> docbook-xsl-1.73.2\roundtrip\supported.xml
> \downloaded\docbook\docbook-xsl-1.73.2\fo\docbook.xsl
> fop1.extensions=1 use.extensions=1 tablecolumns.extension=1 paper.type=A4
> Making portrait pages on A4 paper (210mmx297mm)
>
>
> C:\downloaded\docbook>fop -v -fo c:\Temp\temp.fo -pdf \temp\suppo.pdf
> FOP Version 0.94
> 31.12.2007 11:48:38
> org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.inline.LineLayoutManager$LineBreakingAlgorithm
> updateData2
> WARNING: Line 1 of a paragraph overflows the available area.
> (fo:block, location: 8/101)
>
> ( removed screenloads of this warning )
>
> WARNING: Line 3 of a paragraph overflows the available area.
> (fo:block, location: 4180/101)
> 31.12.2007 11:48:52 org.apache.fop.layoutmgr.PageBreaker$1 notifyOverflow
> WARNING: Content of the region-body on page 2 overflows the available
> area in block-progression dimension. (fo:page-sequence, location:
> 1/29175)
>
>
>
> The problem occurs w/ both A4 and US Letter paper.
>
>
>
> -Antti-
>
>
> Ps. About my environment:
> - win xp sp 2
> - docbook-xsl 1.73.2
> - jdk 1.6.0_03
> - saxon 6.55
> - fop 0.94
> - fop hyphenation jar installed
>
>
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