Subject: Re: [xsl] Total number of pages with XSL-FO From: Nadia.Swaby@xxxxxx Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 11:26:00 -0400 |
Table solution? Mind running that past me again? <fo:block id="last-page" line-height="0"/> is the one that doesn't work. Nadia Swaby JBryant@xxxxxxxx m To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: 2005-04-21 11:22 Subject: Re: [xsl] Total number of pages with XSL-FO Please respond to xsl-list Which of the two solutions presented in that message did you try? The table solution should always work. Jay Bryant Bryant Communication Services (presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies) Nadia.Swaby@xxxxxx 04/21/2005 10:16 AM Please respond to xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject Re: [xsl] Total number of pages with XSL-FO Hello All, I tried this and it seemed to work until today when a user emailed me a PDF where the last page is blank. Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this problem?? Nadia Swaby JBryant@xxxxxxxx m To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: 2005-04-14 14:44 Subject: Re: [xsl] Total number of pages with XSL-FO Please respond to xsl-list Hi, Nadia, You are generating the .fo document from an XML source via an XSL stylesheet, right? So how can the last-page block be in the fo already? I must not have a proper grasp of your process. Anyway, to make page x of y work correctly, you need to put in an empty block with the ID, as your predecessor mentioned. If you put the ID on an actual content block, you run the risk of the content within the block crossing a page boundary and making your page total be off by one (or more if you have a really big block). Fortunately, you can make the empty block be very small, so that it is unlikely to trigger a new page. Try this: <fo:block id="last-page" line-height="0"/> If you want to be absolutely sure that content appears on the last page, put the last block that has content and the empty block into a table that has two rows (one for each block). Then set keep-with-next="always" on the first row. That way, the empty block can never be on a page by itself. Jay Bryant Bryant Communication Services (presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies) Nadia.Swaby@xxxxxx 04/14/2005 12:12 PM Please respond to xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc Subject Re: [xsl] Total number of pages with XSL-FO Well I tried and it does not work. I suspect that it is because the id 'last-page' is in the actual .fo document, no in the xml. here is a code snippet: <xsl:choose> <xsl:when test="//fo:block/@id='last-page'"> Page <fo:page-number/> of <fo:page-number-citation ref-id="last-page"/> </xsl:when> <xsl:otherwise> Page 1 of 1 </xsl:otherwise> </xsl:choose> <!--snip to block with id='last-page'--> <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after-otherlast"> <fo:block id="last-page" space-before="12pt" keep-together.within-page="auto"> <fo:leader leader-pattern="rule" leader-length="100%" rule-thickness="0.5pt" rule-style="solid" color="black"/> </fo:block> </fo:static-content> Somehow, I think there is no way to get that xsl:choose to work. I talked to the guy that worked on this before me. The original stylesheet had an empty block at the end of the document and that block had the id set to "last-page". The problem was that it cause a new empty page to be displayed in some cases, and it was taken out. My guess is that I am going to have to take it out and hope that the custodians and users do not mind just having a page number, instead of the total number of pages. Nadia Swaby JBryant@xxxxxxxx m To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: 2005-04-14 11:43 Subject: Re: [xsl] Total number of pages with XSL-FO Please respond to xsl-list > So here is my next question: is there any way to see if an id > exists in an FO document? > > Nadia Swaby Hi, Nadia, Sure. You can do a test for it in either xsl:when or xsl:if. For example: <xsl:if test="//@id='MyID'"> <!-- Do something (perhaps apply certain templates) --> </xsl:if> Of course, if you can determine the exact path (not always possible because elements may be nested at different depths and so on), you can use the actual path instead of //. HTH Jay Bryant Bryant Communication Services (presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)
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