Thank you very much Ken. I will try this out. 




--- On Fri, 8/1/08, G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re:  custom page sequence in xslfo
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, August 1, 2008, 12:46 AM
> XSL-FO does not allow one to trigger different page
> geometries 
> dynamically in the flow, which is what you are trying to
> do.
> 
> However, this is something my customer needed for
> landscape-oriented 
> tables and I came up with a solution called
> "PSMI" for "Page Sequence 
> Master Interleave":
> 
>   
> http://biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200203/msg00879.html
>   
> http://biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200403/msg00464.html
> 
> This will do what you want, and the end result works with
> any XSL-FO 
> engine, but there is an intermediate XSLT process that
> requires one 
> to create the XSL-FO outside of the engine and pass the
> transformed 
> instance to the engine standalone.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken
> 
> At 2008-07-31 08:01 -0700, Sarkup Sarkup wrote:
> >Hi:
> >
> >I have an XSLFO question. I have a sample xml file:
> >
> ><root>
> ><element1>
> ><image>
> ><graphic></graphic>
> ></image>
> ></element1>
> ></root>
> >
> >I have a common file called images.xsl which is used to
> style all the images.
> >
> >My pagelayouts are defined in a base style sheet called
> base.xsl
> >
> >Now, I want to create a seperate page layout with
> different page 
> >width and height jsut for the <image> element and
> call this in the 
> >images.xsl style sheet.
> >
> >I created a seperate <fo:simple-page-master> with
> the desired page 
> >layouts, and a page sequence master in base.xsl.
> >
> >What I want to really do is create a template with
> these page layout 
> >specifications and call this in images.xsl. Can this be
> done in xslfo?
> >
> >Any suggestion/help is appreciated.
> >
> >Thank you
> 
> 
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