I am generating PDF file by XSL & XML file using apache fop, i will get a list of map from database and write it as a XML tag values and PDF template in XSL file, i need to create page by page PDF by using XML tag values. i tried to come out with fo:flow element, but in output values are not set in xsl-region-before, check my files..
My XSL
<?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="pages">
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="simple"
page-height="8.5in" page-width="11in" margin-top=".5in"
margin-bottom=".5in" margin-left=".5in" margin-right=".5in">
<fo:region-body margin-top="2cm" margin-bottom="2cm" />
<fo:region-before extent="2cm" overflow="hidden" />
<fo:region-after extent="1cm" overflow="hidden" />
</fo:simple-page-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="simple"
initial-page-number="1">
<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before">
<fo:block font-size="13.0pt" font-family="serif"
padding-after="2.0pt" space-before="4.0pt" text-align="center"
border-bottom-style="solid" border-bottom-width="1.0pt">
<fo:block>
<xsl:value-of select="page-header"/>
</fo:block>
</fo:block>
</fo:static-content>
<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after">
<fo:block font-size="12.0pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-after="2.0pt" space-before="2.0pt" text-align="center"
border-top-style="solid" border-bottom-width="1.0pt">
<xsl:text>Page</xsl:text>
<fo:page-number />
</fo:block>
</fo:static-content>
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<xsl:apply-templates select="page-body" />
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="page-body">
<fo:block text-align="center" break-before="page">
<fo:table table-layout="fixed" width="100%"
border-style="dashed">
<fo:table-column border-style="solid" />
<fo:table-column border-style="solid" />
<fo:table-column border-style="solid" />
<fo:table-header>
<xsl:apply-templates select="table-header" />
</fo:table-header>
<fo:table-body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="table-data" />
</fo:table-body>
</fo:table>
</fo:block>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="table-header">
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">
<xsl:value-of select="column-one"></xsl:value-of>
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">
<xsl:value-of select="column-two"></xsl:value-of>
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">
<xsl:value-of select="column-three"></xsl:value-of>
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="table-data">
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">
<xsl:value-of select="column-one"></xsl:value-of>
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">
<xsl:if test="number(column-two) = number(column-two)">
<xsl:value-of select="format-number(translate(column-two, ',','.'), '#,###.##')"></xsl:value-of>
</xsl:if>
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">
<xsl:value-of select="column-three"></xsl:value-of>
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
My XML File
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<pages>
<page-body>
<page-header>
Page Sample 1
</page-header>
<table-header>
<column-one>Column One</column-one>
<column-two>Column Two</column-two>
<column-three>Column Three</column-three>
</table-header>
<table-data>
<column-one>One</column-one>
<column-two>5000</column-two>
<column-three>Three</column-three>
</table-data>
<table-data>
<column-one>One</column-one>
<column-two>5000</column-two>
<column-three>Three</column-three>
</table-data>
<table-data>
<column-one>One</column-one>
<column-two>0</column-two>
<column-three>Three</column-three>
</table-data>
<table-data>
<column-one>One</column-one>
<column-two>0</column-two>
<column-three>Four</column-three>
</table-data>
<table-data>
<column-one>One</column-one>
<column-two>2000</column-two>
<column-three>Four</column-three>
</table-data>
<table-data>
<column-one>One</column-one>
<column-two>1234</column-two>
<column-three>Five</column-three>
</table-data>
<table-data>
<column-one>One</column-one>
<column-two>5666</column-two>
<column-three>Five</column-three>
</table-data>
<table-data>
<column-one>One</column-one>
<column-two>5666</column-two>
<column-three>Five</column-three>
</table-data>
</page-body>
<page-body>
<page-header>
Page Sample 2
</page-header>
<table-header>
<column-one>Column One</column-one>
<column-two>Column Two</column-two>
<column-three>Column Three</column-three>
</table-header>
<table-data>
<column-one>One</column-one>
<column-two>8000</column-two>
<column-three>Three</column-three>
</table-data>
<table-data>
<column-one>One</column-one>
<column-two>8000</column-two>
<column-three>Three</column-three>
</table-data>
<table-data>
<column-one>One</column-one>
<column-two>100</column-two>
<column-three>Three</column-three>
</table-data>
<table-data>
<column-one>One</column-one>
<column-two>100</column-two>
<column-three>Four</column-three>
</table-data>
<table-data>
<column-one>One</column-one>
<column-two>7000</column-two>
<column-three>Four</column-three>
</table-data>
<table-data>
<column-one>One</column-one>
<column-two>7000</column-two>
<column-three>Five</column-three>
</table-data>
<table-data>
<column-one>One</column-one>
<column-two>6666</column-two>
<column-three>Five</column-three>
</table-data>
<table-data>
<column-one>One</column-one>
<column-two>6666</column-two>
<column-three>Five</column-three>
</table-data>
</page-body>
</pages>
Help me to get and set value for xsl-region-before block from xml tag page-header which is inside the each page-body tag.
Expecting output is
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="simple"
page-height="8.5in" page-width="11in" margin-top=".5in"
margin-bottom=".5in" margin-left=".5in" margin-right=".5in">
<fo:region-body margin-top="2cm" margin-bottom="2cm" />
<fo:region-before extent="2cm" overflow="hidden" />
<fo:region-after extent="1cm" overflow="hidden" />
</fo:simple-page-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="simple"
initial-page-number="1">
<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before">
<fo:block font-size="13.0pt" font-family="serif"
padding-after="2.0pt" space-before="4.0pt" text-align="center"
border-bottom-style="solid" border-bottom-width="1.0pt">
<fo:block>
Page Sample 1
<!--As "Page Sample 2" from xml page-body/page-header value for next page -->
</fo:block>
</fo:block>
</fo:static-content>
<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after">
<fo:block font-size="12.0pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-after="2.0pt" space-before="2.0pt" text-align="center"
border-top-style="solid" border-bottom-width="1.0pt">
Page
<fo:page-number />
</fo:block>
</fo:static-content>
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<fo:block text-align="center" break-before="page">
<fo:table table-layout="fixed" width="100%"
border-style="dashed">
<fo:table-column border-style="solid" />
<fo:table-column border-style="solid" />
<fo:table-column border-style="solid" />
<fo:table-header>
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Column One</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Column Two</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Column Three</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
</fo:table-header>
<fo:table-body>
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">One</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">5,000.0</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Three</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">One</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">5,000.0</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Three</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">One</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">.0</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Three</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">One</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">.0</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Four</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">One</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">2,000.0</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Four</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">One</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">1,234.0</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Five</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">One</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">5,666.0</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Five</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">One</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">5,666.0</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Five</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
</fo:table-body>
</fo:table>
</fo:block>
<fo:block text-align="center" break-before="page">
<fo:table table-layout="fixed" width="100%"
border-style="dashed">
<fo:table-column border-style="solid" />
<fo:table-column border-style="solid" />
<fo:table-column border-style="solid" />
<fo:table-header>
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Column One</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Column Two</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Column Three</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
</fo:table-header>
<fo:table-body>
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">One</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">8,000.0</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Three</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">One</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">8,000.0</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Three</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">One</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">100.0</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Three</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">One</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">100.0</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Four</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">One</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">7,000.0</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Four</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">One</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">7,000.0</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Five</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">One</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">6,666.0</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Five</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">One</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">6,666.0</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">Five</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
</fo:table-body>
</fo:table>
</fo:block>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
And here is a second answer that uses FOP and markers. Slight modification to your XSL only. This uses retrieve-marker in the region-before and sets that marker each time a page-body is encountered:
<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="pages">
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="simple"
page-height="8.5in" page-width="11in" margin-top=".5in"
margin-bottom=".5in" margin-left=".5in" margin-right=".5in">
<fo:region-body margin-top="2cm" margin-bottom="2cm" />
<fo:region-before extent="2cm" overflow="hidden" />
<fo:region-after extent="1cm" overflow="hidden" />
</fo:simple-page-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="simple"
initial-page-number="1">
<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before">
<fo:block font-size="13.0pt" font-family="serif"
padding-after="2.0pt" space-before="4.0pt" text-align="center"
border-bottom-style="solid" border-bottom-width="1.0pt">
<fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name="header" retrieve-position="first-including-carryover"/>
</fo:block>
</fo:static-content>
<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after">
<fo:block font-size="12.0pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-after="2.0pt" space-before="2.0pt" text-align="center"
border-top-style="solid" border-bottom-width="1.0pt">
<xsl:text>Page</xsl:text>
<fo:page-number />
</fo:block>
</fo:static-content>
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<xsl:apply-templates select="page-body" />
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="page-body">
<fo:block text-align="center" break-before="page">
<fo:marker marker-class-name="header">
<fo:block>
<xsl:value-of select="page-header"/>
</fo:block>
</fo:marker>
<fo:table table-layout="fixed" width="100%"
border-style="dashed">
<fo:table-column border-style="solid" />
<fo:table-column border-style="solid" />
<fo:table-column border-style="solid" />
<fo:table-header>
<xsl:apply-templates select="table-header" />
</fo:table-header>
<fo:table-body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="table-data" />
</fo:table-body>
</fo:table>
</fo:block>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="table-header">
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">
<xsl:value-of select="column-one"></xsl:value-of>
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">
<xsl:value-of select="column-two"></xsl:value-of>
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">
<xsl:value-of select="column-three"></xsl:value-of>
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="table-data">
<fo:table-row keep-together.within-page="always"
border-style="solid">
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">
<xsl:value-of select="column-one"></xsl:value-of>
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">
<xsl:if test="number(column-two) = number(column-two)">
<xsl:value-of select="format-number(translate(column-two, ',','.'), '#,###.##')"></xsl:value-of>
</xsl:if>
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
<fo:table-cell>
<fo:block font-size="10pt" font-family="sans-serif"
padding-top="3pt">
<xsl:value-of select="column-three"></xsl:value-of>
</fo:block>
</fo:table-cell>
</fo:table-row>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
This yields the following: