Re: Starting Initial Page Number on Page Three

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Subject: Re: Starting Initial Page Number on Page Three
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:48:27 -0500

At 2009-03-04 17:27 -0800, Horace Burke wrote:

Yes, I tried my modified template. It didn't change anything. The page number still starts at three "3" -- I am sure I am doing something wrong.

I have a guess ... but you don't show us your input data.

The template is applied by default rules.

Okay, so with the built-in template rules, that is in effect doing the following:

   <xsl:template match="some-element">
     <xsl:apply-templates/>
   </xsl:template>

So that means if you have the data:

   <some-element>
      <lang>
        ....stuff....
      </lang>
      <lang>
        ....stuff....
      </lang>
      <lang>
        ....stuff....
      </lang>
   </some-element>

And your template reads as follows:

 <xsl:template match="lang">
        <fo:page-sequence master-reference="Insrt-body-page">
<xsl:if test="position() = 1"> <xsl:attribute name="initial-page-number">1</xsl:attribute> </xsl:if>

... then <lang> is *not* the first child node of <some-element> and you won't get your attribute. It is the first element node. The first child node is the text node with the indentation of the <lang> element's start tag. The position() would be returning "2" in the illustration above, which is why you aren't getting initial-page-number="1".

Do you only have element children below <some-element>? If so, you could avoid the built-in template rules and do the following:

   <xsl:template match="some-element">
     <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
   </xsl:template>

... which will only push the element children to your stylesheet.

Or if you only have <lang> children you could do:

   <xsl:template match="some-element">
     <xsl:apply-templates select="lang"/>
   </xsl:template>

Then if the first <lang> is the first element child of <some-element> then the position() function would return "1" and you would get your initial-page-number="1".

I hope I've guessed right and this helps. It is a common issue when dealing with the built-in template rules and indented data.

. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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