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word page break

Hi All,
   
  I am using FOP 0.20.5 to convert a WordML document into PDF. As there are 2 types of pagebreaks in word, one the hard/soft page break(from menu insert->page break) and two the pagebreakbefore property on a paragraph(highlight a paragraph and right click to see properties), I see that it is able to convert a pagebreakbefore but not the hard page break. I am just using a stylesheet that microsoft recommends to convert WordML into XML-FO and I could not figure out where we can make a change in the stylesheet to fix this issue. As I am new to XSL and understand that this may not be a FOP problem but could someone give me a clue as to why it is not able to convert a hard page break.
   
  Thanks,
  Pardha

  
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Re: word page break

Posted by Pardha Paruchuri <pa...@yahoo.com>.
Hi Jay,
   
  Thanks for your help. I have tried to add my code to the existing template as shown below but that was giving NPE error during transformation.
   
  <xsl:template match="w:br">
  <!-- defines a page, column, or text-wrapping break -->
  <xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="@w:type='page'"/>
                 <!--xsl:attribute name="break-before">page</xsl:attribute-- my code>
                 <!--fo:block break-before="page"/-- my code>
  <xsl:when test="@w:type='column'"/>
  <!-- if @w:type="text-wrapping" or omitted - it's a new-line break -->
  <xsl:otherwise>
  <fo:block/>
  </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:template>
   
  So I added a new template just before the existing one and that worked. Here is the new one
   
  <xsl:template match="w:br[@w:type='page']">
  <!-- defines a page, column, or text-wrapping break -->
  <fo:block break-before="page"/> 
  </xsl:template>
   
  Thank you,
  Pardha
   
  Jay Bryant <ja...@bryantcs.com> wrote:
          Hi, Pardha,
   
  I've done lots of work with WordML, so I can get you started on this one.
   
  Insert -> Page Break produces the following element in Word's XML output (in the paragraph's text run):
   
  <w:br w:type="page"/>
   
  When you do it from the paragraph properties, you get the following element (in the pPr element for the paragraph):
   
  <w:pageBreakBefore/>
   
  So, to catch them both, you need corresponding templates, thus:
   
  <xsl:template match="w:pageBreakBefore">
    <!-- Do whatever you do with page breaks here -->
  </xsl:template>
   
    <xsl:template match="w:br[@w:type='page']">
    <!-- Do whatever you do with page breaks here -->
  </xsl:template>
   
  If you do the same thing with the two kinds of breaks, you can process them in the same template, thus:
   
    <xsl:template match="w:pageBreakBefore|w:br[@w:type='page']">
    <!-- Do whatever you do with page breaks here -->
  </xsl:template>
   

  HTH
   
  Jay Bryant
  Bryant Communication Services
   

    ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Pardha Paruchuri 
  To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org 
  Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 12:56 PM
  Subject: word page break
  

  Hi All,
   
  I am using FOP 0.20.5 to convert a WordML document into PDF. As there are 2 types of pagebreaks in word, one the hard/soft page break(from menu insert->page break) and two the pagebreakbefore property on a paragraph(highlight a paragraph and right click to see properties), I see that it is able to convert a pagebreakbefore but not the hard page break. I am just using a stylesheet that microsoft recommends to convert WordML into XML-FO and I could not figure out where we can make a change in the stylesheet to fix this issue. As I am new to XSL and understand that this may not be a FOP problem but could someone give me a clue as to why it is not able to convert a hard page break.
   
  Thanks,
  Pardha
    
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Re: word page break

Posted by Jay Bryant <ja...@bryantcs.com>.
Hi, Pardha,

I've done lots of work with WordML, so I can get you started on this one.

Insert -> Page Break produces the following element in Word's XML output (in the paragraph's text run):

<w:br w:type="page"/>

When you do it from the paragraph properties, you get the following element (in the pPr element for the paragraph):

<w:pageBreakBefore/>

So, to catch them both, you need corresponding templates, thus:

<xsl:template match="w:pageBreakBefore">
  <!-- Do whatever you do with page breaks here -->
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="w:br[@w:type='page']">
  <!-- Do whatever you do with page breaks here -->
</xsl:template>

If you do the same thing with the two kinds of breaks, you can process them in the same template, thus:

<xsl:template match="w:pageBreakBefore|w:br[@w:type='page']">
  <!-- Do whatever you do with page breaks here -->
</xsl:template>

HTH

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Pardha Paruchuri 
  To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org 
  Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 12:56 PM
  Subject: word page break


  Hi All,

  I am using FOP 0.20.5 to convert a WordML document into PDF. As there are 2 types of pagebreaks in word, one the hard/soft page break(from menu insert->page break) and two the pagebreakbefore property on a paragraph(highlight a paragraph and right click to see properties), I see that it is able to convert a pagebreakbefore but not the hard page break. I am just using a stylesheet that microsoft recommends to convert WordML into XML-FO and I could not figure out where we can make a change in the stylesheet to fix this issue. As I am new to XSL and understand that this may not be a FOP problem but could someone give me a clue as to why it is not able to convert a hard page break.

  Thanks,
  Pardha


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