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 Hello, Aadel: You can see XSL 1.0 Spec, 6.4.2. There is a note for your problem. It suggests that each chapter in a separate fo:page-sequence to allow chapter title to place in the header region, for content in fo:static-content should be "static." Frank ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aadel Chaudhuri" <aadel@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 12:15 AM Subject: Creating Headers in XSL:FO that correspond to chapter numbers > > I have recently been converting an installation guide written in xml to a > pdf document using the xsl:fo translating language. I am fairly new > to both xsl and fo, so please excuse the possible naivety of my questions. > I am writing to ask for advice on placing chapter numbers on page headings > corresponding to pages within those chapters. > > The XML document that I'm using has been summarized below: > > <book> > <title> > text > </title> > <chapter> > <title>titleval1</title> > <body>text</body> > </chapter> > <chapter> > <title>titleval2</title> > <body>....</body> > </chapter> > <chapter> > <title>titleval3</title> > <body>....</body> > </chapter> > </book> > > In my xsl, I'd like to have a header that displays both the title > of the book, and the chapter number. Here is a clip of code > from my xsl that displays the header: > > <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-before"> > <fo:block text-align-last="centered" font-size="10pt"> > <xsl:value-of select="title" /> > <xsl:text>/Chapter </xsl:text> > <!-- Commands for Chapter Number go here --> > </fo:block> > <fo:display-rule /> > </fo:static-content> > > I number my chapters using the <xsl:number /> function. I'll give > you a better idea of how I do this by displaying a piece of my > <xsl:template match="chapter"> template, which shows the code behind > chapter cover pages: > > <xsl:if test="@pagebreak='yes'"> > <fo:block break-before="page" font-size="30pt" > space-before.optimum="125pt" text-align-last="centered" > line-height="40pt" font-weight="bold"> > <xsl:text>Chapter </xsl:text> > <xsl:number /> > </fo:block> > </xsl:if> > <xsl:if test="not(@pagebreak='yes')"> > <fo:block font-size="30pt" space-before.optimum="125pt" > text-align-last="centered" line-height="40pt" font-weight="bold"> > <xsl:text>Chapter </xsl:text> > <xsl:number/> > </fo:block> > </xsl:if> > > I'm finding it difficult to display the current chapter number in the > header since there doesn't seem to be a way for me to conditionalize > the header based on page number. If there is a page-number-position > function, I can tell the header to display different chapter numbers > depending on the page its on. > > A more robust way (in terms of code) of displaying chapter numbers would > involve finding a way to communicate to the header the chapter that is > currently being displayed in the region-body. Although this seems > rather simple, variations of the <xsl:for-each> and <xsl:value-of select> > functions have left me with few results. I have only found ways to > display one chapter number throughout the entire installguide, or > all three chapter numbers together (123) throughout the guide. > > I greatly appreciate any help you can give me. Thank you in advance. > > Sincerely, > > Aadel Chaudhuri > > Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute > MIT Undergrad Student > > > > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list 
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