Re: [xsl] output last page number

[Patrick Durusau <pdurusau@xxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew,

Matthew L. Avizinis wrote:

> Hello all,
>  I am using Xalan to process some xml files for transformation to fo and
> then fop to write pdf's.  I have one xml file for each chapter of a book and
> I want to have a separate pdf for each chapter.  However, the page numbering
> needs to be continuous from one chapter to the next.  I notice that the only
> information fop needs is fo:page-number to know when to write the actual
> page number to the pdf pages.  Is there a way to save the last page number
> for later use, such as to write it to a temporary file?
> Any suggestions are appreciated and thank you in advance.

Are you using separate stylesheets for each chapter? Not automatic but 
you could manually use (in each stylesheet):

<fo: page-sequence
  master-reference="chapter"
  initial-page-number="yourChapterStartPageNumber"

to force beginning on a particular page number.

See: http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect3/bk/index.html for very good 
coverage of XSL (with examples).

Patrick

> Matthew L. Avizinis
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