Florent,

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. The template is applied by default rules. I do have a template matching "/" -- it contains the page layouts and default apply-templates. I added more excerpts.

<xsl:template match="/">
   <fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
      <fo:layout-master-set>
	   .....
	   <fo:simple-page-master master-name="Insrt-body-page" page-height="{$doc_height}" page-width="{$doc_width}" margin-top="0.3in"
                    	 margin-bottom="0.2in" margin-left="0.45in" margin-right="0.45in">
                    	 ....
           </fo:simple-page-master>
           ....
     
      </fo:layout-master-set>
             
        <!--++ Display entire data in the inserts ++-->
         <xsl:apply-templates/>
   </fo:root>    
</xsl:template>
     
 <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>
           
           <fo:static-content flow-name="lang-pg-ct">
           	 <fo:block text-align="center" font-size="{$p-font_Size}">
           	    <fo:page-number/>
           	    <fo:basic-link internal-destination="{generate-id(/)}">
           	       <fo:page-number-citation ref-id="{generate-id(/)}"/>
           	    </fo:basic-link>
           	 </fo:block>
           </fo:static-content>
           
           <fo:flow flow-name="Prod-pgbody" font-family="{$font_Fam}">
             <fo:block id="{generate-id(.)}">
     	   <xsl:apply-templates/>
             </fo:block>
           </fo:flow>
        </fo:page-sequence>
        
</xsl:template>

Thanks for all your help.
Horace Burke


--- On Wed, 3/4/09, Florent Georges <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Florent Georges <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Starting Initial Page Number on Page Three
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 4:24 PM
> Horace Burke wrote:
> 
>   Hi,
> 
> > > But we haven't seen how the template rule is
> applied.
> 
> > There is no special application for this template. The
> > snippet/except that I have posted is my template for
> > "lang" and within this template I have
> fo:page-sequence. I
> > do not have an xsl:call-template or apply-templates
> for
> > this particular template.
> 
>   It is hard to tell from your message what you tried and
> what was the (wrong) result.  If the template is never
> applied nor called, then it is never evaluated, and does
> not
> produce anything in the result tree.  But maybe it is
> applied by default rules.
> 
>   I think this is a good practice when beginning with XSLT
> to always write a template matching "/" to view
> more easily
> how the processing walks the input tree.
> 
>   Have you tried the modified template in your last email?
> If you did, what was the result and how was it wrong?
> 
>   Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Florent Georges
> http://www.fgeorges.org/