Re: Iteration

At 2002-05-27 08:42 -0400, Gianluca Gaiotto wrote:
>I'd like to generate multiple copies of the same PDF page, depending on the
>value of an attribute of an element in the XML document.

A common need.

>I haven't found any XSL-FO tags for expressing such an iteration;

Correct, XSLFO is a layout language, not a transformation language.

>does
>anybody know how to implement this?

In your XSLT stylesheet.  It is up to you to detect the attribute desired 
and to repeat the page content as many times as you need by logic in your 
stylesheet.

Your resulting XSLFO instance then contains all the content you need laid 
out on the pages (as many copies as your transformation created), and the 
XSLFO engine produces the result from that.

I hope this helps.

....................... Ken


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