Large amount of data in a block

Question

XSL-FO document using an XML data source. One tag has a large amount of data in it (10k+ characters, 200+ lines). Need to break it across multiple pages.

I've tried keep-together.within-page="auto" which did no good since it's a single block.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" version="1.1" xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon" extension-element-prefixes="saxon" xmlns:fox="http://xml.apache.org/fop/extensions"
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<xsl:template match="*|@*">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="*|@*"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="YY">
    <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" font-family="Courier">
        <fo:layout-master-set>
            <!--Page 1 Pagemaster -->
            <fo:simple-page-master master-name="pagemaster1" page-height="792pt" page-width="612pt">
                <fo:region-body margin-left="15pt" margin-top="10pt" margin-bottom="20pt" margin-right="15pt"/>
                <fo:region-before extent="20pt"/>
                <fo:region-after extent="20pt"/>
                <fo:region-start extent="15pt"/>
                <fo:region-end extent="15pt"/>
            </fo:simple-page-master>
        </fo:layout-master-set>
        <!-- Page 1 Setup -->
        <fo:page-sequence master-reference="pagemaster1">
            <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before">
                <fo:table>
                    <fo:table-column column-width="582pt"/>
                    <fo:table-body>
                        <fo:table-row>
                            <fo:table-cell column-number="1" text-align="left" padding-left="2pt" padding-top="2pt" padding-right="2pt" padding-bottom="2pt">
                                <fo:block  linefeed-treatment="preserve" font-size="9pt">
                                    <xsl:value-of select="//YY/FIELD"/>
                                </fo:block>
                            </fo:table-cell>
                        </fo:table-row>
                    </fo:table-body>
                </fo:table>
            </fo:static-content>
        </fo:page-sequence>
    </fo:root>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
<!-- End of Stylesheet -->

Output pdf stops at one page, cutting off the balance. Just need the block to continue on as many pages as necessary in order to display the entire contents.

Answer 1

You are not understanding the structure of XSL FO. You put static content into the static area (think header and footer) on the page. You put flowing content in a flow.

While you are showing XSL and we have no idea what the returns, use the below as inspiration. You will see it flow across pages because the content is inside the flow area:

<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" font-family="Courier">
<fo:layout-master-set>
    <!--Page 1 Pagemaster -->
    <fo:simple-page-master master-name="pagemaster1" page-height="792pt" page-width="612pt">
        <fo:region-body margin-left="15pt" margin-top="10pt" margin-bottom="20pt" margin-right="15pt"/>
        <fo:region-before extent="20pt"/>
        <fo:region-after extent="20pt"/>
        <fo:region-start extent="15pt"/>
        <fo:region-end extent="15pt"/>
    </fo:simple-page-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<!-- Page 1 Setup -->
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="pagemaster1">
    <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before">
        <fo:table>
            <fo:table-column column-width="582pt"/>
            <fo:table-body>
                <fo:table-row>
                    <fo:table-cell column-number="1" text-align="left" padding-left="2pt" padding-top="2pt" padding-right="2pt" padding-bottom="2pt">
                        <fo:block linefeed-treatment="preserve" font-size="9pt"> I am the header </fo:block>
                    </fo:table-cell>
                </fo:table-row>
            </fo:table-body>
        </fo:table>
    </fo:static-content>
    <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
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    </fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>

Result showing content in two pages (sorry not pretty just showing what you want):