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Greetings All! I have found a few related topics in the archives but I can not find the answer to my question. First some background: we have a xsl:fo reporting solution coming (its about 6-9 months away), but in the meantime we are trying to make our plain html reports a little more appealing by using xml and xsl to make the reports print with headers, footers, summaries, etc. The xml report data files all follow the same structure: <report> <name>report name</name> <structure> definition of the data fields with type, max length, etc. This description is only published for clients that want to create alternative xsl files for report generation. </structure> <data> <item> one report row in the format <value1 length="111">display value</value1> <value2 length="222">display value</value2> </item> </data> What I am having difficulty with is dynamic paging. I can make the report display properly by enforcing a rule like each item takes 3 lines, so a 48 line page requires a page break every 16 items using something like test="position() mod 16 = 0". What I want is to be able to do dynamic paging. I am trying to do this using an accumulating counter. I want to calculate the number of lines a given item will require (I have this working), and keep a running total of the number of lines used. Then when their is not enough lines to display the current item on the current page, display the page footer, initiate a new page using css2, display a page header, and then display the item. I have read some online and text examples that recommend using a for-loop template but I can not reconcile the for-loop and for-each I am using to display each item. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. -- Shane shane.knysh at YonerDotCom "God doesn't play dice with the universe." - Albert Einstein "God not only plays dice, he does it where no one can see" - Stephen Hawking
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