Section Title in Page Footer

[Will Gilbert <gi...@informagen.com>]

I would like to put a current section name is the footer of the PDF. 
I've used the footer to successfully write the page number and date and 
other static information.

This would be written into <fo:static-content 
flow-name="xsl-region-after">.  I am afraid that the words 
"static-content" might just say it all and I can't do this.

I played around with some XPATH notations and got a few things to print 
but I could figure what the current node/context is when this region is 
processed.

FAQ, links, sample code welcome.

--will


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Re: Section Title in Page Footer

["J.Pietschmann" <j3...@yahoo.de>]

Will Gilbert wrote:
> Thanks, Chris.  I got this to work as advertised, used Google to get the 
> exact syntax correct.  A question -- Why does a fo:marker have to be the 
> first child of a fo:flow?

A fo:marker must be the first child of the parent FO, which is
not necessarily a fo:flow. You can attach a marker to basically
every FO which may be a descendant of a fo:flow, with the
restriction that a marker must not be a descendant of another
marker.

> Or is this a design compromise for 0.20.5 in lieu of the re-factored 
> development branch?
I'm not aware that there is such a restriction in FOP. Perhaps
you got an error message because you had whitesp[ece before a marker
in a mixed content context, like
   <fo:block>
     <fo:marker> ...</fo:marker>
     foo...
The spec explicitely forbids this, check
   http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/xslfo/slice6.html#fo_marker
You have to write
   <fo:block><fo:marker> ...</fo:marker>
      ... foo ...
in this case

J.Pietschmann



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Re: Section Title in Page Footer

[Will Gilbert <gi...@informagen.com>]

On Dec 16, 2003, at 11:45 AM, Chris Bowditch wrote:

> Will Gilbert wrote:
>> This would be written into <fo:static-content 
>> flow-name="xsl-region-after">.  I am afraid that the words 
>> "static-content" might just say it all and I can't do this.
>
> fo:marker and fo:retrieve-marker can be used to put variable content 
> into the static regions.
>
> <snip/>
>
>> FAQ, links, sample code welcome.
>
> in the FOP distribution examples/fo/markers sub directory there is an 
> example that shows how to use markers.
>
> Chris

Thanks, Chris.  I got this to work as advertised, used Google to get 
the exact syntax correct.  A question -- Why does a fo:marker have to 
be the first child of a fo:flow?

I was able rewrite my fo structure to accommodate this requirement but 
many of the examples returned by Google showed fo:marker's within 
fo:blocks.  It seems odd to force each section be within its own 
seperate fo:flow.

Or is this a design compromise for 0.20.5 in lieu of the re-factored 
development branch?


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Re: Section Title in Page Footer

[Chris Bowditch <bo...@hotmail>]

Will Gilbert wrote:
> This would be written into <fo:static-content 
> flow-name="xsl-region-after">.  I am afraid that the words 
> "static-content" might just say it all and I can't do this.

fo:marker and fo:retrieve-marker can be used to put variable content 
into the static regions.

<snip/>

> 
> FAQ, links, sample code welcome.
> 

in the FOP distribution examples/fo/markers sub directory there is an 
example that shows how to use markers.

Chris



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