Pagination of original documents

[Matthias Brunner <mb...@blumenstrasse.vol.at>]

Hello,

we are developing an editing system for parliament session minutes. The 
documents are initially edited in XML and then converted into PDF with FOP.

Unfortunately, we cannot separate content and presentation completely, because 
the authorative version of the minutes will be printed and the page number 
will then be the only valid reference to certain positions.

Therefore, we need to get the page numbers back into the original XML 
documents so that the pages cannot swap any more after a "fixation point" in 
the editing process (but can still be edited in a restricted way) and 
searches in electronic documents are able to return the page numbers (since 
they are the only valid and useful references in parliamentary discussion).

This could probably achieved by scanning the xml area tree but this method 
seems to be somewhat error-prone.
Having some "page break listener" which gets the currently processed DOM node 
of the original document and adds a " page break element" to it seems more 
reasonable. Yet I do not know enough about the internal architecture of Fop. 
Maybe someone could give me a hint where to start or whether there is a 
better way to do this?

Or has anyone done something like this before?


Any helpful replies would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: Pagination of original documents

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

Matthias Brunner wrote:
> Therefore, we need to get the page numbers back into the original XML 
> documents so that the pages cannot swap any more after a "fixation point" in 
> the editing process (but can still be edited in a restricted way) and 
> searches in electronic documents are able to return the page numbers...

Try this:
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fop-dev&m=102812798919134&w=2

J.Pietschmann

MARC label: PageNumberExtensionElement