page break for <draw:frame> elements

[Regina Henschel <regina.henschel@libreoffice.org>]

Hi all,

this is about the <draw:frame> element in paged text documents. If it 
has no svg:height attribute (19.543.10), the height of the element is 
the intrinsic height of its content. At least that's how I understand 
Â5.1.2 of [SVG].

The <draw:frame> element can have <draw:text-box> and <table:table> 
child elements among others. The content of a <draw:text-box> or 
<table:table> element might be so large, that is doesn't fit on one page 
of the document. What happens in such cases? I do not mean, what 
applications currently do, but what is specified in ODF?

I have not found any rule for the situation "no svg:height attribute" 
plus large content.

Background is that MS Office has the concept of "floating table" which 
allows to wrap text around the table. LibreOffice has emulated this by 
putting the table into a <draw:frame> element.

Kind regard,
Regina