Category: Reliable Penguin

1. Multiple looping within a report. Example: multiple UPS tracking numbers to print in the footer of an invoice after detail lines have looped. Loops are accomplished with xsl:apply-templates statements. At the point in the document that you want the loop, insert an xsl:apply-templates tag with the select attribute set to the node that you want to loop on. For example if you have tracking numbers in //report/tracking elements then use: lt;xsl:apply-templates select=”tracking” /> At the end of the document you’ll want to define a template to render the tracking numbers. For example: <xsl:template match=”//report/tracking” > <fo:block><xsl:value-of select=”@number” /></fo:block> </xsl:template> Here’s what the xml might look like: <report> <tracking number=”123″ /> <tracking number=”456″ /> <tracking number=”789″ /> </report> So for each loop, create a template that renders the looped item and add an apply-templates element at the point where you want the template inserted. There is also ans xsl:for-each looping

How do you put comments in an XML file? Comments are the same as in html – just do: <!– my comment here –>

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And here was the answer: This problem come down to image resolutiosn. Here’s an FO faq entry that talks about image resolution. I think this is where your problem is coming from: http://xml.apache.org/fop/graphics.html#resolution Here’s a link to the fo:external-graphic description in the spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice6.html#fo_external-graphic To attributes that look relevant are “scaling” and “scaling-method”.