How to repeat <th> with Pisa (xhtml2pdf)

Question

I am creating a PDF from HTML using Pisa. The pisa documentation (section 11.3) states that you can repeat the line "You can repeat the rows of the table if the page break occurs inside the table. The number of repeating rows is passed in the attribute repeat." Their sample code is:

<table repeat="1">>
  <tr><th>Column 1</th><th>...</th></tr>
  ...
</table>

My code

<table repeat="1" width="100%">
<tr>
   <th align='left'>name</th>
   <th align='right'>text</th>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan=2>
   <table>
     <tr><td>stuff</td></tr>
   </table>
</td></tr>
...
</table>

Any ideas as to why the first <tr> doesn't repeat when the page breaks?

Answer 1

The solution is to not embed your tables. For some reason, Pisa does not repeat the title if the cells are nested tables. Correct your structure to exclude nested tables, and it should work.