- From: G. Ken Holman <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 15:29:49 -0400
- To: <www-xsl-fo@w3.org>
At 2002-04-24 17:52 +0100, Marina Pérel wrote: >I have a small problem but it will be great if somebody can resolve it. You are very close to solving it, but you don't realize it. > <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after"> > page <fo:page-number/> / <fo:page-number-citation ref-id="endofdoc"> > </fo....> > ........ > ........ > <fo:block id="endofdoc"> </fo:block> There is nothing magic about "endofdoc" ... indeed, I think it is potentially misleading to be taught that one should use "endofdoc" for this purpose. In my XSLFO book and training I teach that people should not use a fixed string but should use something like "{generate-id(/)}" to ensure that their end of document indicator is not something that can be accidentally included in the area tree by their XML authors accidentally typing the value for ID/IDREF purposes. While I agree "endofdoc" is not very likely to show up in an author's content for ID/IDREF, it is statistically possible. By converting every ID/IDREF to using generate-id() of the node instead of the ID token (this is the safest approach at all times, especially when dealing with multiple source documents), there is no statistical probability of every having a conflict, because ID/IDREF cannot ever reference the root node of an XML document. So, just use for each of your included documents: (1) - a unique "end of included document" identifier (you could easily use the generated id of the root node of each of your input documents) (2) - a separate page sequence with that page sequence's "end of included document identifier" being that which you calculate for the included document (3) - a definition of static content for each page sequence using that sequence's unique identifier (4) - an empty block at the end of each page sequence using that sequence's unique identifier (5) - the initial-page-number="1" property for each page sequence (otherwise you will get a cumulative page number) Don't forget that you are not obliged to use only a single <page-sequence> in your XSLFO result ... you can have as many as you need ... each one starts on a new page of the result and each one can have different static content than the others. I hope this helps. .................... Ken -- Upcoming: 3-days XSLT/XPath and/or 2-days XSLFO: June 17-21, 2002 - : 3-days XML Information Modeling: July 31-August 2, 2002 G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/f/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (Fax:-0995) ISBN 0-13-065196-6 Definitive XSLT and XPath ISBN 1-894049-08-X Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath ISBN 1-894049-07-1 Practical Formatting Using XSLFO XSL/XML/DSSSL/SGML/OmniMark services, books(electronic, printed), articles, training(instructor-live,Internet-live,web/CD,licensed) Next public training: 2002-05-06,07,09,10,13,20, - 06-04,07,10,11,13,14,17,20,07-31,08-05
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