At 2009-03-04 17:27 -0800, Horace Burke wrote:
Yes, I tried my modified template. It didn't change anything. The 
page number still starts at three "3" -- I am sure I am doing something wrong.

I have a guess ... but you don't show us your input data.



The template is applied by default rules.

Okay, so with the built-in template rules, that is in effect doing 
the following:



   <xsl:template match="some-element">
     <xsl:apply-templates/>
   </xsl:template>

So that means if you have the data:



   <some-element>
      <lang>
        ....stuff....
      </lang>
      <lang>
        ....stuff....
      </lang>
      <lang>
        ....stuff....
      </lang>
   </some-element>

And your template reads as follows:



 <xsl:template match="lang">
        <fo:page-sequence master-reference="Insrt-body-page">

          <xsl:if test="position() = 1">

             <xsl:attribute 
name="initial-page-number">1</xsl:attribute>

           </xsl:if>

... then <lang> is *not* the first child node of <some-element> and 
you won't get your attribute.  It is the first element node.  The 
first child node is the text node with the indentation of the <lang> 
element's start tag.  The position() would be returning "2" in the 
illustration above, which is why you aren't getting initial-page-number="1".



Do you only have element children below <some-element>?  If so, you 
could avoid the built-in template rules and do the following:



   <xsl:template match="some-element">
     <xsl:apply-templates select="*"/>
   </xsl:template>

... which will only push the element children to your stylesheet.



Or if you only have <lang> children you could do:



   <xsl:template match="some-element">
     <xsl:apply-templates select="lang"/>
   </xsl:template>

Then if the first <lang> is the first element child of <some-element> 
then the position() function would return "1" and you would get your 
initial-page-number="1".



I hope I've guessed right and this helps.  It is a common issue when 
dealing with the built-in template rules and indented data.



. . . . . . . . . . . . Ken



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