RE: conditional page break

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion, I will experiment with this, as the idea would
certainly solve the problem (Basically don't start the second section on the
same page if you're really near the bottom). 
I think the problem will be that I have oversimplified the situation. My
region body has two columns, and what I have been calling 'block B' is
actually a short block header which spans both columns, followed by a long
block which does not span columns (hence my other post about getting the
spanning block to stick with the non-spanning block). I don't think I can
put both in a block-container without losing the span/don't span ability -
May have to get customer to agree to some simplifications!

Thanks for looking into this, and I will be sure to review the XSL 2.0
requirements.

Tamsin

-----Original Message-----
From: www-xsl-fo-request@w3.org [mailto:www-xsl-fo-request@w3.org] On Behalf
Of Tony Graham
Sent: 22 October 2009 22:34
To: www-xsl-fo@w3.org
Subject: Re: conditional page break

On Thu, Oct 22 2009 15:07:13 +0100, John.Virgo@xerox.com wrote:
> Could you provide a little more detail around the flow-map?

The flow map directs flows to regions.

In XSL 1.1, you can have more than one fo:region-body within a
fo:simple-page-master, and each xsl:region-body has to have a different
"region-name" and may have different positions on the page.

See http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#d0e7194 for flow-map examples.

Unfortunately, I couldn't solve Tamsin's problem using flow-maps after
all: the best that I could do on the second page was to put A and B in
different regions, so it couldn't look like B directly followed A when A
overflowed onto the second page.

However, if A is always going to be large enough, and B is never going
to be small enough, that all of A and all of B can fit on one page, then
you can put B in a fo:block-container, specify a mimimum
block-progression-dimension, and set overflow to "repeat".  If the
minimum is larger than the maximum BPD that A will leave on the first
page, then B will always start on the second page, but if B overflows
that page, it will just generate more areas on the third page.  The
issue then becomes whether A will always leave enough room on the second
page for B's minimum BPD, otherwise B would start on the third page
instead of on the second page after the end of the large A.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
  <fo:layout-master-set>
    <fo:simple-page-master page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
margin-right="0.75in" margin-left="0.2in" margin-bottom="0.0in"
margin-top="0.375in" master-name="a">
      <fo:region-body margin-bottom="0.9in" margin-top="0.6in"
region-name="xsl-region-body"/>
    </fo:simple-page-master>
    <fo:page-sequence-master master-name="master">
      <fo:repeatable-page-master-reference  master-reference="a"/>
    </fo:page-sequence-master>
  </fo:layout-master-set>
    <fo:page-sequence master-reference="master">
      <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body" font-size="72pt">
        <fo:block>A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A
A A A A A A A A A A</fo:block>
        <fo:block-container overflow="repeat"
block-progression-dimension.minimum="200mm"><fo:block>B B B B B B B B B B B
B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B
B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B
B</fo:block></fo:block-container>
      </fo:flow>
    </fo:page-sequence>
    <fo:page-sequence master-reference="master">
      <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body" font-size="72pt">
        <fo:block>A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A
A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A
A A A A A A A A A A A</fo:block>
        <fo:block-container overflow="repeat"
block-progression-dimension.minimum="200mm"><fo:block>B B B B B B B B B B B
B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B
B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B
B</fo:block></fo:block-container>
      </fo:flow>
    </fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
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Regards,


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