XSL-FO Table break every 5 columns - xslt

Question

I am creating an fo:table that has 25 columns.
When I am converting to PDF the table is too wide for the size of the page (A4), how can I break the table by column, for example, every 5 columns I want to write on another page?
Thanks

Answer 1

I have taken an example of table which has nine column like:
<Table>
<thead>
<tr>
<td>Head1</td>
<td>Head2</td>
<td>Head3</td>
<td>Head4</td>
<td>Head5</td>
<td>Head6</td>
<td>Head7</td>
<td>Head8</td>
<td>Head9</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>4</td>
<td>5</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>7</td>
<td>8</td>
<td>9</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2-1</td>
<td>2-2</td>
<td>2-3</td>
<td>2-4</td>
<td>2-5</td>
<td>2-6</td>
<td>2-7</td>
<td>2-8</td>
<td>2-9</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3-1</td>
<td>3-2</td>
<td>3-3</td>
<td>3-4</td>
<td>3-5</td>
<td>3-6</td>
<td>3-7</td>
<td>3-8</td>
<td>3-9</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</Table>
Now, I have created XSLT to break it into multiple table by passing integer value in <xsl:param name="columnNumber"/> param:
<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>
<xsl:param name="columnNumber" select="xs:integer(4)"/>
<xsl:template match="Table">
<xsl:param name="countColumn" select="count(//tbody/tr[1]/td)"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$countColumn gt $columnNumber">
<xsl:call-template name="divideTable">
<xsl:with-param name="tableToGenerate" select="ceiling($countColumn div $columnNumber)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="orginialTable" select="self::*"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="*"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="divideTable">
<xsl:param name="tableToGenerate"/>
<xsl:param name="orginialTable"/>
<xsl:param name="start" select="xs:integer(1)"/>
<xsl:param name="end" select="$columnNumber"/>
<xsl:param name="counter" select="xs:integer(1)"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$counter le $tableToGenerate">
<Table>
<thead>
<xsl:copy-of
select="$orginialTable/thead/tr/td[position() le $end and position() ge $start]"/>
</thead>
<tbody>
<xsl:for-each select="$orginialTable/tbody/tr">
<tr>
<xsl:copy-of select="td[position() le $end and position() ge $start]"/>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</tbody>
</Table>
<xsl:call-template name="divideTable">
<xsl:with-param name="start" select="xs:integer(($columnNumber * $counter) + 1)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="end" select="xs:integer(($columnNumber * $counter) + $columnNumber)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="tableToGenerate" select="$tableToGenerate"/>
<xsl:with-param name="orginialTable" select="$orginialTable"/>
<xsl:with-param name="counter" select="xs:integer($counter + 1)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
It gives me ouput:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Table xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<thead>
<td>Head1</td>
<td>Head2</td>
<td>Head3</td>
<td>Head4</td>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>2</td>
<td>3</td>
<td>4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2-1</td>
<td>2-2</td>
<td>2-3</td>
<td>2-4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3-1</td>
<td>3-2</td>
<td>3-3</td>
<td>3-4</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</Table>
<Table xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<thead>
<td>Head5</td>
<td>Head6</td>
<td>Head7</td>
<td>Head8</td>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>5</td>
<td>6</td>
<td>7</td>
<td>8</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2-5</td>
<td>2-6</td>
<td>2-7</td>
<td>2-8</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3-5</td>
<td>3-6</td>
<td>3-7</td>
<td>3-8</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</Table>
<Table xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<thead>
<td>Head9</td>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>9</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2-9</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3-9</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</Table>
Please have a look on this and check if this example helps

Answer 2

My solution was creating two independent tables.
Then I created two block of xsl templates, to differentiate the first block of the second block I used mode function.
Like this:
Table
....
<xsl:apply-templates select="content[#teste='1']" mode="first" />
....
<xsl:apply-templates select="content[#teste='1']" mode="second" />
....
XSL Templates block
....
<xsl:template match="content[#teste='1']" mode="first">
....
<xsl:template match="content[#teste='1']" mode="second">
....