RE: [xep-support] Selecting everything "before" and "after" a given node

Ken - thanks so much, and thanks for confirming that it's not a straight
forward thing! The 2-pass approach makes sense - I'd thought of
something like not, but not the approach of transforming to FO twice.

We're also investigating the possibility of having the XML modified
(since we work with the folks who produce it and are requesting this
special case!)

Thanks again,

Paul
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From: owner-xep-support@renderx.com
[mailto:owner-xep-support@renderx.com] On Behalf Of G. Ken Holman
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [xep-support] Selecting everything "before" and "after" a
given node

Re-reading this gave me an idea to slightly modify my suggestion.

At 2009-03-31 15:30 +0800, I wrote:
>Remember that XSL-FO is tolerant of foreign namespaces. Using your
>own namespace you can seed signals in the XSL-FO document and the
>processor would just ignore them. The only change you add to your
>existing code is to add in the XSL-FO a private foreign-namespace
>attribute of your own to signal the table that needs to be spanned.

There is no need to go to that effort ... just put the span="all" in
the table that is being spanned, and the second-pass XSLT will be
able to find the table needing massaging without the need for a
signal in a non-XSL-FO namespace.

Of course if you sent the XSL-FO instance as is to the formatter it
would be rejected because the table isn't at the top level, but now
the generic second-pass XSLT is just finding and "extricating" the
spanned table from the flow that was created by the arbitrary
formatting algorithms.

Of course, that's the difficult bit. But I'm still thinking it might
be possible to be generic.

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

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