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(expecting my first mail didn't reach the list, apologizing if this is the second mail with the same question)

Hi all,

I'm rendering pdf's with fop and I would like to keep all my lines/files of
xsl to a minimum.

This means I put a lot of formatting information in my xml file, something like this:

<reportXML page-layout="portrait">
	<title> Hello world </title>
	<table table-layout="fixed">
		<tr background-color="#CCCCCC">
			<td width="10cm"
			   <block align="left">hello again</block>
			</td>
		</tr>
                 ...

Trying to keep xsl to a minimum also means it won't include hard-coded lines like:

<fo:page-sequence master-reference="portrait">

My fo-statements (try to) use elements from the input xml, something like this:

<fo:page-sequence master-reference="<xsl:value-of select="$page_layout"/>">

As expectd, his statement won't work.

How to accomplisch this?

ps what (technically) works, is:

	<xsl:if test="@page-layout='portrait'">
		<fo:page-sequence master-reference="portrait">
			<xsl:call-template name="continue"></xsl:call-template>
		</fo:page-sequence>
	</xsl:if>

	<xsl:if test="@page-layout='landscape'">
		<fo:page-sequence master-reference="landscape">
			<xsl:call-template name="continue"></xsl:call-template>
		</fo:page-sequence>
	</xsl:if>

But this will overload my xsl file with if-statements (difficult to maintain)
because I have to use this mechanism a lot.

Thanks in advance,

mathieu van echtelt

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