Re: [xsl] Creating multiple PDF files from a single XSL-FO script

[Ben Mendis <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,

If you're using Antenna House Formatter there is an extension for
multi-volume output which might be helpful. You would need to segment
your data into multiple flows (each flow would become a separate PDF file).

Regards,
Ben

Mark Wilson wrote:
> I have an index that I produce with XSL-FO in PDF format that has
> grown to hundreds of pages. The file is updated quite often. Users of
> my website are complaining that the file is too large and clumsy to
> use. I would like to break it into separate files, one for each letter
> of the alphabet. That way, users could download and use only the
> letter of interest.
>
> I could break my XML file into separate files first, then run my
> current XSL-FO file on each of those segments to accomplish what I
> want, but this seems like brute force.
>
> While I know how to break an XML file into separate files, I cannot
> seem to get my head around how to do that with XSL-FO. I do not see
> how to take the things that are done once (setting up odd and even
> pages, etc) and ask the file to do that multiple times. Can someone
> make this a bit clearer for me?
>
> Right now the XSL-FO is set up like this:
>
> <fo:root>
> ... fo pdf creation stuff: layout, page-sequence, etc
> <fo:root/>
>
> <template>
> .... my xml document processing stuff (many templates)
> <template/>
>
> How do I invoke fo:root more than once? Or have I got it all wrong?
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>
>

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