[xep-support] A question of page breaks and keeps

[David Tolpin]

> 
> At 05:09 PM 3/17/2003, David Tolpin wrote:
> >At 2003-03-17 16:27 -0800, Lori Wong wrote:
> >>I have an instance where I have a list-item (with 
> >>keep-together-within-page="always") that exceeds the length of a page.
> >
> >The W3C Recommendation states this is an overflow error condition and the 
> >content exceeding the page length is discarded, not to be formatted.  A 
> >numeric value of keep is allowed to be broken by exceeding the length of 
> >the page, any higher numeric values of keep will still try to be 
> >respected.  When the keep is broken it is flowed as if the keep were never 
> >specified.

It was not me who wrote that. numeric values for keeps are treated as "always"
by XEP. It is either "keep it" (always or a numeric value), or let it loose (auto). 

> 
> I'd like to, but I'm currently using the empty block to hold an ID to 
> keyword a passage - in this case the list-block.  Ideally, we should have 
> the ID associated with the list-block, rather than an empty block, but I'm 
> working with some legacy data... it might be possible to rework the XSLT to 
> eliminate the empty block and move the ID into the list-block.

You can postprocess your fo data if you don't have access to the source xsl.

David
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