I would just use an image. All you have is 20 empty cells anyway that are
always the same. I would not waste a formatting engine's time to render 20
rows of nothingness.

Create and image of what you want to do and set it as the background of a
block-container with a rotated block inside it (to set the progression
dimension to be the footer height).

Kevin Brown
RenderX

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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 08:43:02 -0400
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re:  XSL-FO and Z-index
Message-Id: <7.0.1.0.2.20120919083348.0241e238@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

At 2012-09-19 14:01 +0200, Jesper Tverskov wrote:
>Hi list
>
>I have this XSL-FO creating a PDF of two pages.
>
>In the middle of the first page I have a table with 20 rows and cells
>with borders but without any content.
>
>Sometimes content above the table is a little longer than normal and
>the table is pressed a couple of lines down the page, which is exactly
>what I want, but I don't want the table to spill over to the next
>page, but simply to hide under the footer of the first page.
>
>Now I have googled for "clip", "spillover", "z-index", but I have not
>found the right solution yet.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>At the moment the table simply stops at the page footer and pops up at
>page two instead? It should go under the footer and stay there?

Have you tried putting the table into a block-container and then 
clipping the overflow of the block-container?  You need to specify an 
explicit size of the block-container, but you know that since it is 
going on the first page.  You can wrap the entire content of your 
first page in the block-container, not just the table.

The code below works in Antenna House.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . . . Ken

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?><!--table-clip.fo-->
<root xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
       font-family="Times" font-size="20pt">

   <layout-master-set>
     <simple-page-master master-name="frame"
                         page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm"
                         margin-top="15mm" margin-bottom="15mm"
                         margin-left="15mm" margin-right="15mm">
       <region-body region-name="frame-body"/>
     </simple-page-master>
   </layout-master-set>

<page-sequence master-reference="frame">

<flow flow-name="frame-body">

<block-container overflow="hidden" block-progression-dimension="24cm">
   <block space-after="1cm">Title of the document here</block>
<table border="solid 1pt">
     <table-body>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
       <table-row><table-cell><block>cell</block></table-cell></table-row>
     </table-body>
</table>
</block-container>
</flow></page-sequence></root>

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