Re: How can I dynmaically use page-number? from Max Froumentin on 2001-10-05 (www-xsl-fo@w3.org from October 2001)

From: Max Froumentin <mf@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 16:36:20 +0200
To: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@maden.org>
Cc: www-xsl-fo@w3.org
Message-ID: <87n136887v.fsf@sophia.inria.fr>

You wrote:

> This particular example could be done in a loosely-coupled system as a
> special case, but as a general mechanism, getting access to the page
> number in the expression language would introduce the kind of tight
> coupling that XSL has avoided so far.

Indeed, and most requirements we've had so far (like Dave's <fo:if>)
call for such a tightly coupled system, not between the transformation
and the formatting, but between the FO tree and the area tree.

Max.

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