Not everything needs to be XSLT. In this case you could preprocess with a Perl one-liner that would be blazingly fast. Something like:
perl -i.bak -pe 's!\x0C!<ff/>!g;' XMLFILE (Use double quotes on a Windows command-line). Then you'll have <ff/> elements that you can act on in your XSLT. Regards, Arved Sandstrom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Urban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 9:25 AM Subject: RE: Page Breaks > I'm using XSLT to translate XML into FO. The field containing the form > feeds is a text element. I need to be able to do this using XSL. > > Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Akerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:18 PM > To: FOP Dev > Subject: Re: Page Breaks > > > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Jim Urban wrote: > > > I have a servlet which dynamically generates XML which is then translated > > into FO and ran through FOP to generate PDFs. What can I embed (like a > > "\f") in the XML text that will cause FOP to automatically start a new > page? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jim Urban > > I've translated "\f" into: > > </fo:flow> > </fo:page-sequence> > <fo:page-sequence master-name="simple"> > <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body"> > > If thats not sufficently clear, I could provide an example plain-text to > xsl-fo conversion program I've written. > > Michael Akerman > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Services > (501) 575-5870 University of Arkansas > http://www.uark.edu/~mike > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]