Thank you. I'll try it.  

-----Original Message-----
From: David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 3:37 AM
To: Bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  RE: XSL-FO: reset fo:page-number to 1 in each section
o f . pdf, ba sed on XML input


> Thank you.  You asked "What is identical?"  In my XML, the 
> name of every tag
> below the top level <DOCUMENT> is identical: ITEM.  In a given
> <fo:page-sequence>, I need to display the contents of 
> selected <ITEM> tags,
> based on the matching contents of their child <BIRD>.  

Try a two stage transform.

1. Group all item tags with the same bird under  a wrapper.
...
2. Then you need a page layout for each 'group' tag.
...


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