How to add header and footer for every pages in xsl-fo to generate pdf

16
votes

please find the following xsl-fo , tried to set header and footer for every page in pdf, but got only header at first page and footer at last page. But here i needed for every page. How to perform this.

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
     <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<xsl:template match='/'>
    <fo:root>
        <fo:layout-master-set>
            <fo:simple-page-master master-name="my-page"
                               page-height="29.7cm"
                  page-width="21cm"
                  margin-top="1cm"
                  margin-bottom="0.1cm"
                  margin-left="0.8cm"
                  margin-right="1.0cm" >
                <fo:region-body margin-top="2.5cm" margin-bottom="2.5cm"/>
                <fo:region-before extent="2.0cm"/>
                <fo:region-after extent="2.0cm"/>
            </fo:simple-page-master>
        </fo:layout-master-set>
        <fo:page-sequence master-reference="my-page">
            <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-before">
                <fo:block>
                    Message Body
                </fo:block>
            </fo:flow>
            <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
                Message Content
            </fo:flow>

            <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-after">
                <h2>
                    Page Footer
                </h2>
            </fo:flow>
        </fo:page-sequence>
    </fo:root>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="replace-returns">
    <xsl:param name="text"/>
    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="contains($text, '&#xa;')">
            <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text, '&#xa;')"/>
            <xsl:value-of select="'&lt;br /&gt;'" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
            <xsl:call-template name="replace-returns">
                <xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text, '&#xa;')"/>
            </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

3
xmlxsltxslt-1.0xsl-fo
I don't see where you are setting your page size. It looks like an incomplete sample code. You should have somewhere that you are setting page-width="" page-height="" margin-top="" margin-bottom="" margin-left="" margin-right="" defaults for page. – Brian Anderson
please find my edits above. – Vishnu
html (e.g. <h2>) tags are not in the fo namespace and will not be rendered by the FO processor. And I believe the xsl-region-before and xsl-region-after need to come before xsl-region-body... at least in FOP I believe it does. – PhillyNJ
@Phil, i tried , but cant get header and footer for every page. can u attach here a sample xsl-fo for that – Vishnu
data2type.de/en/xml-xslt-xslfo/xsl-fo/xsl-fo-introduction/…. – swamy

3 Answers

27
votes

Below is a simple example on how to get a header and footer on each page. Hope this helps

<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
    <fo:layout-master-set>
        <fo:simple-page-master master-name="simple" page-height="11in" page-width="8.5in" margin-top=".5in" margin-bottom=".5in" margin-left=".5in" margin-right=".5in">
            <fo:region-body region-name="xsl-region-body" margin-bottom=".5in" margin-top=".50in"/>
            <fo:region-before region-name="xsl-region-before" extent="5in"/>
            <fo:region-after region-name="xsl-region-after" extent=".5in"/>
        </fo:simple-page-master>
    </fo:layout-master-set>
    <fo:page-sequence master-reference="simple">
        <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before">
            <fo:block>header</fo:block>
        </fo:static-content>
        <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after">
            <fo:block>footer</fo:block>
        </fo:static-content>
        <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
            <fo:block break-after="page">
            Body
            </fo:block>
            <fo:block>
            Body
            </fo:block>
        </fo:flow>
    </fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
4
votes

If you want header and footer, don't put them into the fo:flow element. They belong into <fo:static-content flow-name="your_flow"> where your_flow can be xsl-region-before or xsl-region-after or any other name you like to give.

This leads to the missing definition of your regions. The ones you use are not defined. Make this work like <fo:region-body region-name="xsl-region-body"> or <fo:region-before region-name="xsl-region-before">

I didn't check if something else prevents the script from working, but your question should be answered with this.

-2
votes

Use this in an itemstyle to output a header:

<xsl:if test="count(preceding-sibling::*)=0">
</xsl:if>

Use this in an itemstyle to output a footer:

<xsl:if test="count(following-sibling::*)=0">
</xsl:if>

More info about this.