Hi, example given, should result in an alternating odd/even layout by referencing the page-sequence-master with the master-reference="basic" but <fo:page-sequence master-reference="basic"> will show:
[INFO]: FOP 0.20.3 [INFO]: building formatting object tree [ERROR]: 'master-reference' for 'fo:page-sequence'matches no 'simple-page-master ' or 'page-sequence-master' <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" version="1.0"> <xsl:template match="/"> <fo:root> <fo:layout-master-set> <fo:simple-page-master master-name="even" page-height="29.7cm" page-width="21cm" margin-top="1cm" margin-bottom="1cm" margin-left="3cm" margin-right="2cm"> <fo:region-body margin-top="1cm" margin-bottom="2cm"/> <fo:region-before extent="1cm"/> <fo:region-after extent="1.5cm"/> </fo:simple-page-master> <fo:simple-page-master master-name="odd" page-height="29.7cm" page-width="21cm" margin-top="1cm" margin-bottom="1cm" margin-left="2cm" margin-right="3cm"> <fo:region-body margin-top="1cm" margin-bottom="2cm"/> <fo:region-before extent="1cm"/> <fo:region-after extent="1.5cm"/> </fo:simple-page-master> <fo:page-sequence-master master-reference="basic"> <fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives> <fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-name="even" odd-or-even="even"/> <fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-name="odd" odd-or-even="odd"/> <fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-name="odd"/> </fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives> </fo:page-sequence-master> </fo:layout-master-set> <xsl:apply-templates select="java2cert"/> <!-- my XML-root Element --> </fo:root> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="java2cert"> <fo:page-sequence initial-page-number="1" master-reference="even"> <!-- I'd like to reference "basic" here, to achieve "alternating" page-masters in 0.20.2 OK, probably because I didn't need to set 'master-reference', [ERROR] happens if you change to: master-reference="basic" --> <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body"> <xsl:apply-templates select="chapter"/> </fo:flow> </fo:page-sequence> </xsl:template> Thanks for your attention markus