From: G. Ken Holman <gkholman(_at_)CraneSoftwrights(_dot_)com>
Subject: Re: [xsl] XSL-FO beginner's question
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Date: Monday, September 28, 2009, 3:58 PM
At 2009-09-28 14:37 -0700, mark
bordelon wrote:
Ladies and Gentlemen of the xsl-list,
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Seoncdly, thanks for heads of on your training
session. My boss and I discussed this a week ago as
something helpful for me. In the meantime, I will have to
make due with my failing around....
Too bad you missed our June west-coast delivery in Santa
Ana. I'm not sure when I'll get to the west coast
again, but anyone on the list who thinks they can collect
enough students for a class in their part of the world can
contact us to consider running either a private or a public
class.
For example, those on the list in Europe can let me know on
our interest page about which of our courses you would like
us to deliver in conjunction with next March's XML Prague
http://www.XMLPrague.cz conference:
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Thirdly, some more details on my problem, since I am
still not getting any results.
0) DRIVER STYLESHEET which calls A and should also
call B has this form:
<xsl:stylesheet>
<!--stylesheet includes-->
<xsl:include href="./A.xsl"/> <!-- after the
contents in print/web permission -->
<xsl:include href="./B.xsl"/> <!-- needs to
be positioned on its own page at the very end -->
Ah .... perhaps the confusion is on the XSLT side and not
the XSL-FO side ... including a stylesheet is not the same
as "calling" a stylesheet. In fact, two stylesheets
that are both included compete with each other for the nodes
that are being pushed at the stylesheet.
<!-- flow for first
page-->
...
<fo:flow
flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<fo:block font-size="8pt"
text-align="center">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//UOIS" mode="cover"/>
...
<fo:flow
flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<xsl:apply-templates select="//UOIS"
mode="captions"/>
Fine so far ... using two modes for the same node.
A) The correctly working pages 2 - ?? has this form:
<xsl:stylesheet>
<xsl:template match="UOIS[(_at_)MODEL_ID =
$IMAGE_MODEL_ID or @MODEL_ID = $TMS_IMAGE_MODEL_ID]"
mode="captions">
<fo:table> </fp:table>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
B) the new stylesheet B.xsl containing only static
content to be placed at the very end now has this form,
following my understanding of Ken's recommendations:
<xsl:stylesheet>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="last"
force-page-count="no-force">
<fo:static-content
flow-name="xsl-region-start">
<fo:table>
</fo:table>
</fo:static-content>
<fo:static-content
flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<fo:table>
</fo:table>
</fo:static-content>
</fo:page-sequence>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Am I on track?
Not quite, because of the confusion regarding
inclusion. But I can work with what you've done so
far.
From an XSLT perspective, your B.xsl is not properly
formed. All included fragments are written as a
complete stylesheet. But the changes you need are (I
think) minimal to get going.
So in B.xsl wrap your page sequence in a *named* template
(and I'm not sure if you merely elided the <fo:flow>
but you'll need that as well, even if it is simply
<fo:block/>):
<xsl:stylesheet ...>
<xsl:template name="do-the-last-bit">
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="last"
force-page-count="no-force">
<fo:static-content
flow-name="xsl-region-start">
...
<fo:flow>
...
</fo:page-sequence>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Then, in your Driver stylesheet, after your second page
sequence, add a call to the named template:
...
<xsl:apply-templates select="//UOIS"
mode="captions"/>
<fo:block
id="last-page"/>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
<xsl:call-template
name="do-the-last-bit"/>
</fo:root>
</xsl:template>
Then you have modularized the last page of content into its
own stylesheet, and you are engaging that stylesheet content
by way of calling its named template.
The way to know if you are going in the right direction is
to inspect the generated XSL-FO after your
transformation. You should see three sibling
page-sequence elements.
I hope this helps, Mark.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
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