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user9507446
user9507446

Reputation: 401

Wrapping a table in PDF using XSLT that exceeds the page size

I'm trying to fit a multi-column table based on an XML file in a standard A4 page. The problem is that the column that exceeds the margin doesn't appear in the generated file (as expected). I want to make the outer columns appear in the next row, however I can't find any way how to do this. I tried to simply change the font size or the orientation of a page, but these solutions are simply a bypass that would fail when the number of columns were higher. Is this even possible to do this using plain XSLT 1.0? My code is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
    <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
        <fo:layout-master-set>
            <fo:simple-page-master master-name="A4" page-height="29cm" page-width="21cm"
                margin-bottom="2cm" margin-top="2cm" margin-left="1.5cm" margin-right="1.5cm">
                <fo:region-body margin-top="1cm"/>
                <fo:region-before extent="1.5cm"/>
                <fo:region-after extent="1.5cm"/>
            </fo:simple-page-master>
        </fo:layout-master-set>

        <fo:page-sequence master-reference="A4">


            <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before">
                <fo:block>Stylistique suppliers report. Generated <xsl:value-of
                        select="report/statistics/dateOfGeneration"/></fo:block>
            </fo:static-content>
            <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after">
                <fo:block>Page <fo:page-number/></fo:block>
            </fo:static-content>

            <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
                <fo:block>
                    <fo:external-graphic src="logo.jpg" width="auto" height="auto"
                        content-height="300px"/>
                </fo:block>

                <fo:block linefeed-treatment="preserve">Summary table</fo:block>
                <fo:table>
                    <xsl:for-each select="report/suppliers/supplier">
                        <fo:table-column column-width="30mm"/>
                    </xsl:for-each>

                    <fo:table-header>
                        <fo:table-row>
                            <xsl:for-each select="report/suppliers/supplier">

                                <fo:table-cell>
                                    <fo:block font-weight="bold" width="30mm" font-size="8px">
                                        <xsl:value-of select="name"/>
                                    </fo:block>
                                </fo:table-cell>
                            </xsl:for-each>
                        </fo:table-row>
                    </fo:table-header>

                    <fo:table-body>

                        <fo:table-row>
                            <xsl:for-each select="report/suppliers/supplier">
                                <fo:table-cell>
                                    <xsl:for-each select="productList/product">
                                        <fo:block>
                                            <xsl:value-of select="name"/>
                                        </fo:block>
                                        <fo:block>
                                            <xsl:value-of select="priceInPLN"/>
                                        </fo:block>

                                    </xsl:for-each>
                                </fo:table-cell>

                            </xsl:for-each>
                        </fo:table-row>

                    </fo:table-body>
                </fo:table>

            </fo:flow>

        </fo:page-sequence>
    </fo:root>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1607

Answers (1)

Tony Graham
Tony Graham

Reputation: 8068

Fake the table by using fo:block for the table rows and fo:inline-container (with a fixed width) for each table cell.

You may have trouble getting the 'cells' to have the same height, but what you want to do is out of scope for fo:table.

Alternatively, if you know exactly where the table should break, you could omit the fo:table-row and use the starts-row and ends-row properties on the fo:table-cell to cause your breaks.

Since you are using XSLT 1.0 and you know the width of the table cells, you could use Muenchian Grouping (https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=muenchian) to group the appropriate number of cells per row. (This would be much simpler if you were using XSLT 2.0 or XSLT 3.0 and could use xsl:for-each-group.)

Also, there's multiple answered SO questions about wrapping text in table cells, including:

(Wrapping text would also be simpler if you were using XSLT 2.0 or XSLT 3.0 (or using AH Formatter, FWIW). See, e.g., https://stackoverflow.com/a/33689540/4092205.)

Upvotes: 1

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