Re: XSL Page Variable

[Christopher R. Maden]

Eric Douglas wrote:
> If I'm understanding you correctly I think this could work.  I
> realize it's for FOP development and it may not be an FOP issue, but
> it's not a pure XSLT issue.  The XSLT handles HTML style formatting.
> The FOP is the paging formatter.  This is a page issue.  As you say
> try "2 passes" I'm thinking I just need to separate the tags, that
> I'm trying to break on PAGE_DATA which triggers the new page call to
> the simple-page-master, then I'm trying to find the page layout data
> under the PAGE_DATA.  I should be able to get the page layout data
> before I find the PAGE_DATA tag to start the new pages..

If you know what your FO markup should look like, and you don’t know how
to make XSLT do that, ask on the XSL list.[1]

If you don’t know what FO markup to make, you can ask on fop-users (not
fop-dev), but please focus on the FO markup itself, and leave the XSLT
out of it.

It looks here like you want to make multiple page-masters and multiple
page-sequences, since you want each page sequcne to have different geometry.

Please follow-up to either fop-users or xsl-list, but not fop-dev.

~Chris

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RE: XSL Page Variable

[Eric Douglas]

Hi Pascal,
 
If I'm understanding you correctly I think this could work.  I realize it's for 
FOP development and it may not be an FOP issue, but it's not a pure XSLT issue. 
 The XSLT handles HTML style formatting.  The FOP is the paging formatter.  
This is a page issue.  As you say try "2 passes" I'm thinking I just need to 
separate the tags, that I'm trying to break on PAGE_DATA which triggers the new 
page call to the simple-page-master, then I'm trying to find the page layout 
data under the PAGE_DATA.  I should be able to get the page layout data before 
I find the PAGE_DATA tag to start the new pages..



From: Pascal Sancho [mailto:pascal.san...@takoma.fr] 
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 8:52 AM
To: fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org
Subject: Re: XSL Page Variable


Hi Eric,

this list is about FOP development, not XSLT or XSL-FO questions.
That said:
 - all pages features are nested in the fo:root/fo:layout-master-set element,
 - while content is nested in fo:root/fo:page-sequence.

Therefore you should process your XML in a 2 passes XSLT:
 - 1 template for page masters,
 - 1 template for content.

Pascal


Le 05/08/2010 14:26, Eric Douglas a écrit : 

If the shell of my XSL looks like this: 
http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format 
<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format&usg=AFQjCNHZhPMfx2p6D5n2w5qLURB5k932Cw>
 ">


STANDARD_PAGE






STANDARD_PAGE

xsl-region-body


page

...





 
So I have all my data grouped by what to print on each page, under a
PAGE_DATA tag in the XML. Now I'm trying to put a tag under the
PAGE_DATA tag to specify different attributes for each page, such as
the margin-bottom mentioned here. As it is written here, it is using
the value of the MARGIN_BOTTOM tag for the margin-bottom attribute,
but it's only taking the last tag in the XML and applying it to all
pages. How do I change the attributes for each page?
Is there a place where I can set a variable from the XML tag value
which can be processed after the for-each statement and before the
page attributes? 

Re: XSL Page Variable

[Pascal Sancho]

Hi Eric,

this list is about FOP development, not XSLT or XSL-FO questions.
That said:
 - all pages features are nested in the fo:root/fo:layout-master-set
element,
 - while content is nested in fo:root/fo:page-sequence.

Therefore you should process your XML in a 2 passes XSLT:
 - 1 template for page masters,
 - 1 template for content.

Pascal


Le 05/08/2010 14:26, Eric Douglas a écrit :
>
> If the shell of my XSL looks like this:
> http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format_
> ">
> 
> 
> STANDARD_PAGE
>  select="PAGE_DATA/MARGIN_BOTTOM"/>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> STANDARD_PAGE
> 
> xsl-region-body
> 
> 
> page
> 
> ...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> So I have all my data grouped by what to print on each page, under a
> PAGE_DATA tag in the XML. Now I'm trying to put a tag under the
> PAGE_DATA tag to specify different attributes for each page, such as
> the margin-bottom mentioned here. As it is written here, it is using
> the value of the MARGIN_BOTTOM tag for the margin-bottom attribute,
> but it's only taking the last tag in the XML and applying it to all
> pages. How do I change the attributes for each page?
> Is there a place where I can set a variable from the XML tag value
> which can be processed after the for-each statement and before the
> page attributes?
>