At 2007-10-19 15:16 -0400, Rush, Jeff wrote:
I am generating invoices and need the customer name to appear at the
top of every page. My XML document contains multiple customers.
<fo:flow flow-name="body">
<xsl:apply-templates select="Customer"/>
<fo:block id="terminator"/>
</fo:flow>
I am defining my marker inside:
<xsl:template match="Customer">
<fo:marker marker-class-name="CustomerName">
<fo:block font="11pt arial" start-indent="0.125in">
<xsl:value-of select="Name"/>
</fo:block>
</fo:marker>
</xsl:template>
Something is missing above is the surrounding block: a marker has to
be the first child of the block that defines the qualifying areas for
that marker. Ref: XSL-FO 1.1 Section 6.13.5 "The fo:marker has to be
an initial child of its parent formatting object."
And I am calling it from within my region-before:
<fo:block-container position="absolute" width="2.0in" height="1.5in"
left="0.0in" top="1.0in">
<fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name="CustomerName"
retrieve-position="first-including-carryover"
retrieve-boundary="page"/> </fo:block-container>
I have tried changing my retrieve-boundary and my retrieve-postion
but I haven't been able to get the correct result.
Sometimes it shows the first customer throughout the entire
document, sometimes it changes occasionally and doesn't show up on
some pages, sometimes it retrieves names out of order (although the
rest of the information the body pulls comes in correct).
I'm not sure how to correlate your evidence with my observation of
there being no qualifying areas defined for the marker.
Try wrapping the <fo:marker> with an <fo:block> and see if the
problems go away.
I'm not sure why you are using markers and not just starting a new
page sequence for every customer ... I'm assuming that while you have
many customers in your XML, you only have one customer per report,
and each report starts on a new page. Can you just use a new page
sequence for each customer and place their name in the static
content? That would probably be a lot easier.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
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