Re: Paging using XSLT

[Francis Norton <francis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

robert@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> Wouldn't it be easier to simply paginate the XML before it gets to the
> translator? ie. throw windows of XML data at the translator and translate
> for each page?
> 
I've had good results from a two step process, with variable length
items.

Step 1 is mark up the printable elements by simply adding newPage
(boolean), pageNumber and LineNumber attributes to the printable
elements, using a recursive template with page and line parameters,
which knows how to size the elements.

Step 2 is to merge the data into a format stylesheet, which then becomes
fairly simple - match a page template for-each element where newPage =
true(), then for-each element with that pageNumber, apply-templates in
layout mode to find a item template which prints and positions the
element correctly.

Hope this helps -

Francis.
-- 
Francis Norton.

why not?




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