XSL-FO: Force Wrap on Table Entries
- by Ace
I'm having an issue where when I publish my modspecs to pdf (XSL-FO). My tables are having issues, where the content of a cell will overflow its column into the next one. How do I force a break on the text so that a new line is created instead?
I can't manually insert zero-space characters since the table entries are programmatically entered. I'm looking for a simple solution that I can just simply add to docbook_pdf.xsl (either as a xsl:param or xsl:attribute)
EDIT:
Here is where I'm at currently:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<xsl:import href="urn:docbkx:stylesheet"/>
...(the beginning of my stylesheet for pdf generation, e.g. header and footer content stuff)
<xsl:template match="text()">
<xsl:call-template name="intersperse-with-zero-spaces">
<xsl:with-param name="str" select="."/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="intersperse-with-zero-spaces">
<xsl:param name="str"/>
<xsl:variable name="spacechars">
	

      
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</xsl:variable>
<xsl:if test="string-length($str) > 0">
<xsl:variable name="c1" select="substring($str, 1, 1)"/>
<xsl:variable name="c2" select="substring($str, 2, 1)"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$c1"/>
<xsl:if test="$c2 != '' and
not(contains($spacechars, $c1) or
contains($spacechars, $c2))">
<xsl:text>​</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:call-template name="intersperse-with-zero-spaces">
<xsl:with-param name="str" select="substring($str, 2)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
With this, the long words are successfully broken up in the table cells! Unfortunately, the side effect is that normal text elsewhere (like in a under sextion X) now breaks up words so that they appear on seperate lines. Is there a way to isolate the above process to just tables?
EDIT #2
here is what the fo spits out for a single table...
<fo:table-row><fo:table-cell padding-start="2pt" padding-end="2pt" padding-top="2pt"
...
</fo:block></fo:table-cell></fo:table-row>
