Hi,
I know that fo:retrieve-marker does not return any value during xsl
transformation and it is only a formatting instruction for the
formatting engine to interpret, but i'm having problems generating
dynamic running heads that are like dictionary styled.
I have a running head that list the first article title that appeared in
the page and the last article that appeared in the page. And if i have
pages like these:
+--------------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ +--------------+
+title 1 + +some text + +some text + +some text +
+some text + +some text + +some text + +some text +
+some text + +title 3 + +some text + +title 4 +
+some text + +some text + +some text + +some text +
+title 2 + +some text + +some text + +some text +
+some text + +some text + +some text + +some text +
+some text + +some text + +some text + +some text +
+some text + +some text + +some text + +some text +
+---page 1---+ +---page 2---+ +---page 3---+ +---page 4---+
then i need to have headers like these:
page 1: title 1 - title 2
page 2: title 2 - title 3
page 3: title 3
page 4: title 3 - title 4
but so far what i get is this:
page 1: title 1 - title 2
page 2: title 2 - title 3
page 3: title 3 - title 3
page 4: title 3 - title 4
my sample xml looks like this:
<root>
<article>
<head>title 1</title>
<p>some text</p>
...
</article>
...
</root>
my xsl looks like this:
<xsl:template match="/">
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";>
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="simple"
page-height="11.69in" page-width="8.27in" margin-left="1in"
margin-right="1in">
<fo:region-body margin-top="1in" margin-bottom="1in"/>
<fo:region-before extent="1in" padding-top="0.5in"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="simple">
<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before">
<fo:block border-bottom-style="solid" border-bottom-width="1pt">
<fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name="heading-start"
retrieve-boundary="page-sequence"
retrieve-position="first-including-carryover"/>
<fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name="heading-end"
retrieve-boundary="page-sequence"
retrieve-position="last-starting-within-page"/>
</fo:block>
</fo:static-content>
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<xsl:apply-templates select="root/article"/>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="article">
<fo:block>
<fo:marker marker-class-name="heading-start"><xsl:value-of
select="head"/></fo:marker>
<fo:marker marker-class-name="heading-end"><xsl:value-of
select="concat(' - ', head)"/></fo:marker>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</fo:block>
</xsl:template>
I need to know when a retrieve-markers are equal or from the same
article, is this possible? if not is there a work around for this?
Thanks,
--
*Jeff Sese*