Re: [xsl] FO and continued

[Kamal Bhatt <kbhatt@xxxxxxxxx>]

J.Pietschmann wrote:
> Kamal Bhatt wrote:
> > I am surprised that no one has built this functionality into their 
> > processors, I would have thought it would be basic functionality. 
>
> Well, it may be basic to you, but apparently the FO designers
> deemed it to be more of a fringe case (along with features
> like the possibility to retrieve the actual number of pages
> in a document rather than the representation of the page number
> of the last page, and others).
> BTW FOP 0.20.5 had an (poorly documented) extension function for
> defining a table footer which was printed only at page breaks,
> which achieved the effect for tables, and by using a blind table
> for most other content. IIRC other FO processors also have
> similar extensions.
Most infuriating thing I am finding about FO is how many "fringe cases" 
there are.

You are right. Unforunately, FOP 0.9x (the new production code) has not 
moved this feature across :(.

RenderX has rx:table-omit-initial-header, which can be used for header 
case. Not too sure if they support the footer case.

Can't see anything like this in Antenna House's documentation. The only 
thing that I found that comes close is axf:suppress-if-first-on-page 
<http://www.antennahouse.com/xslfo/axf4-extension.htm#axf.suppress-if-first-on-page> 
(http://www.antennahouse.com/xslfo/axf4-extension.htm#axf.suppress-if-first-on-page). 
Which looks like the exact opposite to what I want. It is sad, the best 
support for this is in a FO processor that is no longer supported.

Thanks for the help.

--
Kamal Bhatt