Hello all, I have written an FOP extension element, fop:WritePageNumber, which outputs the page number where the element occurs in the fo document. It has several properties which allow to specify a filename, whether to start a new file, append to an existing file, or close the root element of an existing file, a root-element, child element-name, an id for the element.
If a root element is not specified <info> is used by default. If a child element is not specified <x-ref> is used by default. file = "new | append | end" id = "string value" filename = "string value" So if you wrote: <fop:WritePageNumber filename="index.xml" file="new" root-element="index" element-name="indexterm" id="primary_test1"/> <fop:WritePageNumber filename="index.xml" element-name="indexterm" id="secondary_test2"/> <fop:WritePageNumber filename="index.xml" file="end" element-name="indexterm" id="secondary_test3"/> you could have in file index.xml (page numbers chosen arbitrarily for this example): <index> <indexterm id="primary_test1">325</indexterm> <indexterm id="secondary_test2">326</indexterm> <indexterm id="secondary_test3">327</indexterm> </index> This has been useful for me because it allows me to process many chapters of a book individually through FOP then put them together and still produce an index and various other cross references across chapters. It also allow the generation of a table of contents without having to use forward page references and thus the necessity of processing all chapters as one big file. If anyone else thinks this is something useful, I will post the code for review. It's not perfect code but it works. Matthew L. Avizinis <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gleim Publications, Inc. 4201 NW 95th Blvd. Gainesville, FL 32606 (352)-375-0772 www.gleim.com <http://www.gleim.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
