Re: [xsl] XSL-FO to generate Footnotes

[DaveP <davep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/01/2012 09:03 AM, Struijk, Toon van der wrote:
> L.S.
>
> On a project I'm working at, I want to generate footnotes. So far, I know how to autonumber the footnotes, and have the footnotes themselves a different styling. But I can't get them on the bottom of a page. The code I have so far looks like this:
>
> A static content part in the page-sequence:
> <fo:page-sequence master-reference="Brochure-Content" xsl:use-attribute-sets="font-body-normal">
> 	<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-footnote-seperator">
> 		<fo:block space-before="8pt" space-after="8pt" text-align-last="justify">
> 			<fo:leader leader-pattern="rule" leader-lenght="20pt" rule-thickness="0.25pt"/>
> 		</fo:block>
> 	</fo:static-content>
> ....
> </fo:page-sequence>
>
> And in the XSL(T) I use this, where 'voetnoot' refers to parts in the XML where a footnote is defined:
>
> <xsl:template match="voetnoot">
> 	<xsl:variable name="footnote-number">
> 		<xsl:number count="voetnoot" format="1"/>
> 	</xsl:variable>
> 	<fo:footnote>
> 		<fo:inline space-before="10pt" baseline-shift="super" font-size="6pt" font-family="DINOT-Medium" color="#FF0000" >
> 			<xsl:value-of select="$footnote-number"/>
> 		</fo:inline>
> 	<fo:footnote-body>
> 		<fo:list-block provisional-distance-between-starts="20pt">
> 			<fo:list-item>
> 				<fo:list-item-label end-indent="label-end()">
> 					<fo:block baseline-shift="super" font-size="6pt"><xsl:value-of select="$footnote-number"/></fo:block>
> 				</fo:list-item-label>
> 			<fo:list-item-body start-indent="body-start()">
> 				<fo:block>
> 					<xsl:apply-templates/>
> 				</fo:block>
> 			</fo:list-item-body>
> 			</fo:list-item>
> 		</fo:list-block>
> 	</fo:footnote-body>
> </fo:footnote>
> </xsl:template>
>
> The footnotes in the XML looks like this:
> <p>Just a paragraph of text with a footnote. <voetnoot>This is one footnote</voetnoot></p>
> <p> Another paragraph. Maecenas sed diam eget risus varius blandit sit amet non magna. Praesent commodo cursus magna, vel scelerisque nisl consectetur et.<voetnoot>And another footnote to be added</voetnoot></p>
>
> As far as I can see, this is the proper way to render footnotes.
> We use the XSL-FO processor from Altsoft (http://bit.ly/JFV1MI) which should be capable of rendering footnotes.
> Because I'm really new to XSL-FO, having no real programming experience, and just learn by doing, it might be that I'm missing some important part in the above example.
> So if anyone would be so kind to point in the right direction, it would be very appreciated.
>
> Met vriendelijke groet,

You haven't actually said what the problem is?
Are you getting the footnotes rendered as you want? What is missing?
There's a little at
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect3/footnotes.html

More in my book, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596003555.do
page 154




regards

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Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
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