a custom header according to page number
Hello everybody I am a FOP beginner, can somebody help me please with this problem I need to put a cutsomized header in my pages, the header should contain a different block (of text) according to the page currently being generated, so the condition will be based on the page number 1. is there an fo property I can use (say for the static-content or the block elemtents) that makes certain blocks appear/disappear from headers according to page number 2. how can I use FOP to generate this content Thanks a million - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: a custom header according to page number
Your question is a little underspecified ... if you want to distinguish odd and even pages, the page master conditionnal part is for you (see the page master fo definition : chapter 6.4.11 http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice6.html#fo_conditional-page-master-reference). I think you may handle more than just odd-even with this. Use this with different header section... Don't think about using some predicate considering the page number, xsl fo and fop are loosely coupled, it is meant to be that way. So it forbids the user to use the internal page number programaticaly (some FO processor provide extension to do this, fop does not). if your need is more complex and you have some magic formula to guess wich page is affected, conditionnal master-page may be to low level ... Good luck. At 13:13 03/12/2001 +, you wrote: Hello everybody I am a FOP beginner, can somebody help me please with this problem I need to put a cutsomized header in my pages, the header should contain a different block (of text) according to the page currently being generated, so the condition will be based on the page number 1. is there an fo property I can use (say for the static-content or the block elemtents) that makes certain blocks appear/disappear from headers according to page number 2. how can I use FOP to generate this content Cyril Rognon http://www.objectiva.fr
RE: a custom header according to page number
Thanks Cyril, please see answers below -Original Message-From: Cyril Rognon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 3:46 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: a custom header according to page numberYour question is a little underspecified ...if you want to distinguish odd and even pages, the page master conditionnal part is for you (see the page master fo definition : chapter 6.4.11 http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice6.html#fo_conditional-page-master-reference). I think you may handle more than just odd-even with this. Use this with different header section...[Ismaeil, Sameh]no, I don't want to distinguish odd and even pages,specifically, I need to distinguish the frist page from the rest of the pages, any clue?Don't think about using some predicate considering the page number, xsl fo and fop are loosely coupled, it is meant to be that way. So it forbids the user to use the internal page number programaticaly (some FO processor provide extension to do this, fop does not).[Ismaeil, Sameh]yes, I kind of noticed that , it is usually one way: FOP code - fo XSL -pdf documentif your need is more complex and you have some magic formula to guess wich page is affected, conditionnal master-page may be to low level ...[Ismaeil, Sameh]I'll give conditional-master-page some insight and hope it will work, thanks a lotGood luck.At 13:13 03/12/2001 +, you wrote: Hello everybodyI am a FOP beginner, can somebody help me please with this problemI need to put a cutsomized header in my pages, the header should contain adifferent block (of text) according to the page currently being generated,so the condition will be based on the page number1. is there an fo property I can use (say for the static-content or theblock elemtents) that makes certain blocks appear/disappear from headersaccording to page number2. how can I use FOP to generate this content Cyril Rognonhttp://www.objectiva.fr
RE: a custom header according to page number
If you only need to ditinguish the first page from the other ones, simply use a different page-master (reference or name ;-) according to the spec conformance) and use this page master for your cover page only. This will do the trick easily. one page-master for the cover (one page-sequence using this page-master-reference) , and different page-master for the rest of the page sequences. I strongly recomend you to read some FO tutorial, this will spare you a lot of research work (you'll find some ref on http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/) At 14:18 03/12/2001 +, you wrote: Thanks Cyril, please see answers below Your question is a little underspecified ... ... [Ismaeil, Sameh] no, I don't want to distinguish odd and even pages, specifically, I need to distinguish the frist page from the rest of the pages, any clue? Don't think about using some predicate considering the page number, xsl fo and fop are loosely coupled, it is meant to be that way. So it forbids the user to use the internal page number programaticaly (some FO processor provide extension to do this, fop does not). [Ismaeil, Sameh] yes, I kind of noticed that , it is usually one way: FOP code - fo XSL -pdf document if your need is more complex and you have some magic formula to guess wich page is affected, conditionnal master-page may be to low level ... [Ismaeil, Sameh] I'll give conditional-master-page some insight and hope it will work, thanks a lot Good luck. ... Cyril Rognon http://www.objectiva.fr
Re: a custom header according to page number
I do have a similar (or the same?) problem. I have a flow that runs through all the pages. On the first page, though, I'd like to have a different header (static content). So far I defined two simple-page masters and a page-sequence-master that uses a simple-page master for the first page and the other one for the rest. But where do I specify where which (static content) header to use? In the page-masters I can only set margins etc.(?) I tried to use two page-sequences, one for each page master, but then I get the XML-content twice: once for the first page sequence once for the second. Can I specify static content in the page-master? Thanks Jens Cyril Rognon schrieb: If you only need to ditinguish the first page from the other ones, simply use a different page-master (reference or name ;-) according to the spec conformance) and use this page master for your cover page only. This will do the trick easily. one page-master for the cover (one page-sequence using this page-master-reference) , and different page-master for the rest of the page sequences. I strongly recomend you to read some FO tutorial, this will spare you a lot of research work (you'll find some ref on http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/) At 14:18 03/12/2001 +, you wrote: Thanks Cyril, please see answers below Your question is a little underspecified ... ... [Ismaeil, Sameh] no, I don't want to distinguish odd and even pages, specifically, I need to distinguish the frist page from the rest of the pages, any clue? Don't think about using some predicate considering the page number, xsl fo and fop are loosely coupled, it is meant to be that way. So it forbids the user to use the internal page number programaticaly (some FO processor provide extension to do this, fop does not). [Ismaeil, Sameh] yes, I kind of noticed that , it is usually one way: FOP code -> fo XSL ->pdf document if your need is more complex and you have some magic formula to guess wich page is affected, conditionnal master-page may be to low level ... [Ismaeil, Sameh] I'll give conditional-master-page some insight and hope it will work, thanks a lot Good luck. ... Cyril Rognon http://www.objectiva.fr
Re: a custom header according to page number
Hi, Jens In the page masters you can explicitly specify the region-master names also, using the 'region-name' property. It so happens that many people leave these off in examples, and the default values (such as 'xsl-region-start') get assigned. So don't trust examples all the time. :-) Let's say you have one page-master for the first page, and another page-master for the rest of the pages. Give the region-before's different region-names. Then, in your page-sequence, define 2 static-contents for the headers, one of which references one region-name, and the other references the other region-name. They will get appropriately mapped. Hope this helps. Arved Sandstrom - Original Message - From: Jens Eckert To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 11:21 AM Subject: Re: a custom header according to page number I do have a similar (or the same?) problem. I have a flow that runs through all the pages. On the first page, though, I'd like to have a different header (static content). So far I defined two simple-page masters and a page-sequence-master that uses a simple-page master for the first page and the other one for the rest. But where do I specify where which (static content) header to use? In the page-masters I can only set margins etc.(?) I tried to use two page-sequences, one for each page master, but then I get the XML-content twice: once for the first page sequence once for the second. Can I specify static content in the page-master? Thanks Jens Cyril Rognon schrieb: If you only need to ditinguish the first page from the other ones, simply use a different page-master (reference or name ;-) according to the spec conformance) and use this page master for your cover page only. This will do the trick easily. one page-master for the cover (one page-sequence using this page-master-reference) , and different page-master for the rest of the page sequences. I strongly recomend you to read some FO tutorial, this will spare you a lot of research work (you'll find some ref on http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/) At 14:18 03/12/2001 +, you wrote: Thanks Cyril, please see answers below Your question is a little underspecified ... ... [Ismaeil, Sameh] no, I don't want to distinguish odd and even pages, specifically, I need to distinguish the frist page from the rest of the pages, any clue? Don't think about using some predicate considering the page number, xsl fo and fop are loosely coupled, it is meant to be that way. So it forbids the user to use the internal page number programaticaly (some FO processor provide extension to do this, fop does not). [Ismaeil, Sameh] yes, I kind of noticed that , it is usually one way: FOP code - fo XSL -pdf document if your need is more complex and you have some magic formula to guess wich page is affected, conditionnal master-page may be to low level ... [Ismaeil, Sameh] I'll give conditional-master-page some insight and hope it will work, thanks a lot Good luck. ... Cyril Rognon http://www.objectiva.fr
Re: a custom header according to page number
Jens, I think you are trying to do too much in the fo stage. It is aknowledged that you have the power of xsl fo to take care of formatting. The feature you are talking about is a document structure decision. It is meant to be done by XSLT code. When you decide to create your fo document, you must have a way to know wether you are writing the cover page or some of the content after. Thus, you can have one xsl template that will create a different page-sequence with the appropriate header in the static-content and some other template that will use a regular page-sequence for the rest of the document. this is definitely a job for XSLT. Not to be done in fo only. You need two explicit page-sequence and you drive this by XSLT. I hope my explaination is as clear as in my mind... ;-) At 16:21 03/12/2001 +0100, you wrote: I do have a similar (or the same?) problem. I have a flow that runs through all the pages. On the first page, though, I'd like to have a different header (static content). So far I defined two simple-page masters and a page-sequence-master that uses a simple-page master for the first page and the other one for the rest. But where do I specify where which (static content) header to use? In the page-masters I can only set margins etc.(?) I tried to use two page-sequences, one for each page master, but then I get the XML-content twice: once for the first page sequence once for the second. Can I specify static content in the page-master? Cyril Rognon http://www.objectiva.fr
Re: a custom header according to page number
I had this idea as well, but only FO knows which if it is formatting the first or the other pages. But Arved's approach works fine. Thanks a lot! Jens Cyril Rognon schrieb: Jens, I think you are trying to do too much in the fo stage. It is aknowledged that you have the power of xsl fo to take care of formatting. The feature you are talking about is a document structure decision. It is meant to be done by XSLT code. When you decide to create your fo document, you must have a way to know wether you are writing the cover page or some of the content after. Thus, you can have one xsl template that will create a different page-sequence with the appropriate header in the static-content and some other template that will use a regular page-sequence for the rest of the document. this is definitely a job for XSLT. Not to be done in fo only. You need two explicit page-sequence and you drive this by XSLT. I hope my explaination is as clear as in my mind... ;-) At 16:21 03/12/2001 +0100, you wrote: I do have a similar (or the same?) problem. I have a flow that runs through all the pages. On the first page, though, I'd like to have a different header (static content). So far I defined two simple-page masters and a page-sequence-master that uses a simple-page master for the first page and the other one for the rest. But where do I specify where which (static content) header to use? In the page-masters I can only set margins etc.(?) I tried to use two page-sequences, one for each page master, but then I get the XML-content twice: once for the first page sequence once for the second. Can I specify static content in the page-master? Cyril Rognon http://www.objectiva.fr
