Nwilan, > > That is bad news for me... I am beginning to loose faith in > FO being a > > practical solution for build business forms like invoices > from XML. Has > > anyone actually succeeded doing this?
Yes. > xsl-fo specifies vocabulary and semantics of high-quality paginated > presentation. Does it fit you needs or doesn't - your > decision. Take a look at > Dave Pawson's "An introduction to XSL Formatting > Objects"[1], first chapters > may give you a perspective. > > > My next approach will be to produce pcl output and then > make a script > > that removes the headers/footers that are not needed (ie. > the header on > > first page and the footer on the last page). Seems like big > trouble for > > solving something that I had hoped was trivial doing directly in FO. > > What I really needed would be something like > table-ONLY-footer-at-break > > and table-ONLY-header-at-break, Why do you need this? Never seen this on an invoice. If you just want BBF and/or "continued overleaf ..." markers are probably what you are after. If you're trying to show different header/footers, again markers may also work. > > but I know that this kind > of request is > > beyond the scope of this mailing list. > > You right, this list is about FOP - one particular xsl-fo > processor. You'd > better ask on a list devoted to xsl-fo itself, e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or xsl-list. Actually a solution to your problem > may exist, but > I'm not aware of it and unfortunately I have no time to look > for it, sorry. > [1] http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect3/bk/index.html Regards, Roland
