Thanks for the info. However, I am not making the connection on how I can use
your suggested examples.

>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.

Please let me know if I need to provide more information.

<===XML Snippet===>

<Product...>

    <lang langID="EN" language="English" fontFam="Arial">
      ...
    </lang>
    <lang langID="FR" language="Frangais" fontFam="Arial">
      ...
    </lang>
    <lang langID="DE" language="Deutsch" fontFam="Arial">
      ...
    </lang>
    <lang langID="IT" language="Italiano" fontFam="Arial">
      ...
    </lang>

</Product>

<===XSL-FO Snippet===>

<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 in advance for your help.

Thanks,
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, 3:04 AM
> Christopher R. Maden wrote:
>
>   Hi,
>
> > <xsl:if test="position() = 1">
> >   <xsl:attribute
> name="initial-page-number">1</xsl:attribute>
> > </xsl:if>
>
> > Easy!
>
>   But we haven't seen how the template rule is applied.
>  So
> depending on this and on the real input format, maybe he
> would
> need instead:
>
>     <xsl:if
> test="empty(preceding-sibling::lang)">
>        ...
>
>   But that's hard to tell with the excerpts we got so
> far.
>
>   Regards,
>
> --
> Florent Georges
> http://www.fgeorges.org/