im trying to change my document page orientation depending on conditions, but I dont know how this can be done. Reading the documentation didn't help much and couldn't find any examples.
I set my document like this:
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="first-page" page-height="29.7cm" page-width="21.0cm" margin="1cm 2.1cm 0.8cm 2.1cm">
<fo:region-body region-name="xsl-region-body" margin-top="105px" margin-bottom="50px"/>
<fo:region-before region-name="xsl-region-before-first" extent="5in"/>
<fo:region-after region-name="xsl-region-after" extent="5in" display-align="after"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
<fo:simple-page-master master-name="other-page" page-height="21.0cm" page-width="29.7cm" margin="1cm 2.1cm 0.8cm 2.1cm">
<fo:region-body region-name="xsl-region-body" margin-top="105px" margin-bottom="50px"/>
<fo:region-before region-name="xsl-region-before-other" extent="5in"/>
<fo:region-after region-name="xsl-region-after" extent="5in" display-align="after"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
<fo:page-sequence-master master-name="pages">
<fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
<fo:conditional-page-master-reference page-position="first" master-reference="first-page"/>
<fo:conditional-page-master-reference page-position="only" master-reference="other-page"/>
</fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
</fo:page-sequence-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="pages">
<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before-first">
...
</fo:static-content>
<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before-first">
...
</fo:static-content>
<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before-first">
...
</fo:static-content>
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
...
</fo:flow>
This is generating a first vertical page first, and then all the rest are horizontal pages. These horizontal pages are being generated in a for-each loop. What I would like to do is that after a specific page-before="break" which could be in any position, I could change the layout of the following page depending on the data of the for-each items.
Edit: Im using xmlns:fo version 2.0 My exact document should look like this:
<xsl:for-each select="itemsA">
...printed stuff...
</xsl:for-each>
<fo:block break-before="page">
<xsl:for-each select="itemsB">
...printed stuff...
</xsl:for-each>
fo:page-sequence-master
(or fo:simple-page-master
if there's no variation between left/right pages, etc.).fo:page-sequence-master
to within each xsl:for-each
, with the fo:page-sequence-master
referring to the appropriate fo:page-sequence-master
(or `fo:simple-page-master).I.e.:
<xsl:for-each select="itemsA">
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="landscape">
...printed stuff...
</fo:page-sequence>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:for-each select="itemsB">
<fo:page-sequence master-reference="portrait">
...printed stuff...
</fo:page-sequence>
</xsl:for-each>
You would not need the <fo:block break-before="page">
because the fo:page-sequence
always generates a new page sequence.