Re: [xsl] XSL-FO beginner's question

[mark bordelon <markcbordelon@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ladies and Gentlemen of the xsl-list,

First of all, thanks, Ken, for the speedy reply.

Seoncdly, thanks for heads of on your training session. My boss and I
discussed this a week ago as something helpful for me. In the meantime, I will
have to make due with my failing around....

Thirdly, some more details on my problem, since I am still not getting any
results.

0) DRIVER STYLESHEET which calls A and should also call B has this form:
<xsl:stylesheet>

<!--stylesheet includes-->
<xsl:include href="./A.xsl"/> <!-- after the contents in print/web permission
-->
<xsl:include href="./B.xsl"/> <!-- needs to be positioned on its own page at
the very end -->

  <!--master template-->
  <xsl:template match="TEAMS_ASSET_FILE">
    <fo:root>
      <fo:layout-master-set>
       <fo:simple-page-master master-name="first" />
       <fo:simple-page-master master-name="rest" />
      </fo:layout-master-set>

      <!-- flow for first page-->
      <fo:page-sequence master-reference="first">
         <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-start">
         </fo:static-content>
         <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after">
      	</fo:static-content>
         <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
            <fo:block font-size="8pt" text-align="center">
               <xsl:apply-templates select="//UOIS" mode="cover"/>
            </fo:block>
        </fo:flow>
      </fo:page-sequence>

      <!-- flow for the other pages -->
      <fo:page-sequence master-reference="rest">
         <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before">
         </fo:static-content>
	<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after">
      	</fo:static-content>
         <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
            <xsl:apply-templates select="//UOIS" mode="captions"/>
            <fo:block id="last-page"/>
        </fo:flow>
      </fo:page-sequence>
    </fo:root>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="UOIS[@MODEL_ID = $REQUEST_MODEL_ID]" mode="cover">
     <fo:table></fo:table>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


A) The correctly working pages 2 - ?? has this form:

<xsl:stylesheet>
<xsl:template match="UOIS[@MODEL_ID = $IMAGE_MODEL_ID or @MODEL_ID =
$TMS_IMAGE_MODEL_ID]" mode="captions">
<fo:table> </fp:table>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

B) the new stylesheet B.xsl containing only static content to be placed at the
very end now has this form, following my understanding of Ken's
recommendations:

<xsl:stylesheet>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="last" force-page-count="no-force">
    <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-start">
	<fo:table>
	</fo:table>
    </fo:static-content>
    <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-body">
	<fo:table>
	</fo:table>
    </fo:static-content>
</fo:page-sequence>
</xsl:stylesheet>


Am I on track? I still cannot get B.xsl to appear in the output tree.


Mark










--- On Mon, 9/28/09, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [xsl] XSL-FO beginner's question
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, September 28, 2009, 1:51 PM
>
> At 2009-09-28 13:41 -0700, mark bordelon wrote:
> > Gentlemen,
>
> BTW, there are *many* ladies who know this technology very
> well, and who are on this list.
>
> > I am having difficulty breaking into the complexities
> of FO
>
> We are teaching XSL-FO in Washington DC in November
> covering all of XSL-FO 1.0 and 1.1 ... this follows a week
> of XSLT/XQuery/XPath at the same location.  Details
> linked from our home page.
>
> > and have an assignment at work which is proving
> daunting. THis list has helped me so much with XSL that I
> thought someone here would indulge me in a simple start-up
> question.
>
> We have a free excerpt of the PDF book on XSL-FO that we
> sell that you can download from our web site that goes into
> some basics you will probably find very helpful. 
> Details linked from our home page.
>
> > Here goes. I have some XML and an XSL-FO style sheet
> which generates exactly one page of dynamic content
> transformed from the xml. It itself includes another
> stylesheet which dynamically generates an undefinined number
> of pages to follow the first page. These work fine and I do
> not wish to change them (!).
> > My task is deceptively simple for me. I have to
> augment the first driver stylesheet to allow for the
> inclusion of another XSL-FO stylesheet which should generate
> exactly one page of purely static text, which must be the
> last page of the entire PDF.
> >
> > Can anyone give me the most basic start-off template
> for this last, static page, and how to include it to assure
> the correct positioning at the end?
>
> By using multiple page sequences.  You are already
> using at least one page sequence for the content you have
> (you might be using two, one for your title page and one for
> your content).
>
> Follow after the end of your current last
> <page-sequence> with a new <page-sequence> that
> has your static last page.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
>
> <?xml version="1.0"
> encoding="US-ASCII"?><!--mark.fo-->
> <root xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";
>       font-family="Times"
> font-size="20pt">
>
>   <layout-master-set>
>     <simple-page-master master-name="frame"
>                
>         page-height="297mm"
> page-width="210mm"
>                
>         margin-top="15mm"
> margin-bottom="15mm"
>                
>         margin-left="15mm"
> margin-right="15mm">
>       <region-body
> region-name="frame-body"/>
>     </simple-page-master>
>   </layout-master-set>
>
>   <page-sequence master-reference="frame">
>     <flow flow-name="frame-body">
>       <block>This is your first page
> of content</block>
>     </flow>
>   </page-sequence>
>
>   <page-sequence master-reference="frame">
>     <flow flow-name="frame-body">
>       <block>
>         This is where all your
> indeterminate length of content goes
>       </block>
>     </flow>
>   </page-sequence>
>
>   <page-sequence master-reference="frame">
>     <flow flow-name="frame-body">
>       <block>This is your last page of
> fixed content.</block>
>     </flow>
>   </page-sequence>
> </root>
>
>
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