Re: [xep-support] Repeating table-column value across page boundary

Thanks David. That works fine (I used a positive top position instead of a
negative bottom).

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Tolpin" <dvd@davidashen.net>
To: <xep-support@renderx.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [xep-support] Repeating table-column value across page boundary

> >
> > I have a requirement to format a 3 column table like so:
> >
> > DESC PAGE DATE
> > xxx 1 Mar 08/06
> > 2 Mar 08/06
> > 3 Mar 08/06
> > ..
>
> Karl,
>
> put an absolute container into the header for the first column, and
> position it outside the area (that is, with negative bottom attribute).
>
> > If the table requires more than one page I want to repeat the value
> > of the
> > DESC column at the top of the next page (and ideally add the text
> > "cont.")
> > like so:
> >
> > DESC PAGE DATE
> > xxx 51 Mar 08/06
> > (cont.) 52 Mar 08/06
> > 53 Mar 08/06
> > ..
>
>
> XSL 1.1 has table markers for that; XEP will support them eventually.
> For now, a trick would be to cover the (cont.) on the first page with
> another absolute-container at the beginning of the first cell. Should
> work in most implementations.
>
> David
>
>
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Received on Wed Mar 8 12:26:35 2006