Question

Upon finding the “keep-together” attribute, and needing to not page break inside a row I added keep-together="always" on every table-row element in my xslt.
Is there a nicer way of achieving the same effect? It seems a bit hacky.
(ps. I will accept “no” as an answer if no one provides a better one, provided some kind of explanation is proffered.)

Answer 1

keep-together="always" is dangerous because that’s a compound property that also indirectly sets keep-together.within-line="always" (prohibiting line breaks inside a table-cell). You should use keep-together.within-column="always" instead. But specifying that on a table-row is actually the way to go. Nothing hacky about it.

See also: http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#datatype