David Carlisle wrote:
can i say, that if a specific number of columns are open (or if the end
of the sitewidth is arrived...), make a "break" , make a new site, and
show the rest of the columns on the next site?
That's not the xsl way of thinking about it (adding a break part way
through a loop)
Of course splitting a table vertiacally gets interesting if the source
may have spanning cels but assuming that isn't the case (and assuming
you want $n columns per table) you just want to select your inventorlist
elements in groups of $n.
For the first of each group: start a table, start a row, and process the
rest of the group.
so
<xsl:for-each select="inventorlist[position() mod $n = 1">
<fo:table>...
<fo:table-head>..
<fo:table-body>...
<fo:table-row>
<xsl:for-each select=".|following-sibling::inventorlist[position()<$n">
<fo:table-cell...
</xsl:for-each>
so if you have 21 columns and n is 10 you'll end up with two tables with
10 columns and one with 1, which is, I think your request?
Note you never need to break out of the loop, you just ensure before
starting the loop that you have the correct number of nodes.
David
this works very fine, but i've 2 problems now:
the problem is, that after beginning a new table the position() seems to
reset to 0 ->
well, i have in the table-header as title the current positio, n= 5, in
the first table, the titles are 1-5, so far so good
then there comes the new table, and the title is 1-5 again, but should
be 6-10 and so on...
oh man, thats difficult to explain ;).
the second question is. how can i tell it to begin on a new page after
each table?
thx 4 helping
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