Need to change the footer value as per the parent and child topic attributes

[boopathyks]

Hi,

Now I'm working on creating the footer value for pdf using dita-ot pdf conversion. I'm having single parent topic with multiple child topics with outputclass attribute and I need to create the footer text for certain child topic

Input Dita Having:

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[i]<topic class="- topic/topic "  [b]outputclass="heading"[/b]>
   <title outputclass="CD_Map_Heading-hide">HIDE TOPIC</title>
   <topic class="- topic/topic " [b]outputclass="DEF"[/b]>
      <title>DEFINITION</title>
   </topic>
   <topic class="- topic/topic " [b]outputclass="REV"[/b]>
      <title>REVOLUTION</title>
   </topic>
</topic>[/i]

I have created the customized footnote for the pdf using static-content.xsl

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<xsl:template name="insertBodyOddFooter">
    <fo:static-content flow-name="odd-body-footer">
        <fo:block>&#160;</fo:block>
        <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="__body__odd__footer">
            <xsl:choose>
                <xsl:when test="*[contains(@outputclass, 'DEF')]">
                           <xsl:text>DEF</xsl:text>
                  </xsl:when>
                  <xsl:when test="*[contains(@outputclass, 'REV')]">
                           <xsl:text>REV</xsl:text>
                  </xsl:when>
                <xsl:otherwise>
                    <fo:block-container position="absolute">
                        <fo:block padding-top="20pt"  text-align="center">
                            <fo:page-number/>
                        </fo:block>
                    </fo:block-container>
                </xsl:otherwise>
            </xsl:choose>
        </fo:block>
    </fo:static-content>
</xsl:template>

Now I'm getting DEF as footer for all the topics, but I need each child topic gets their corresponding footer value. Seems like it allowing only one topic for the footer. Please help me to get the footer value for each child topics. Thanks in advance!!!

[Dan]

The template insertBodyOddFooter is called once, from the start of a fo:page-sequence.

The content it generates is static across the entire page sequence.

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<xsl:template name="processTopicPart">
        <fo:page-sequence master-reference="body-sequence" xsl:use-attribute-sets="page-sequence.part">
            <xsl:call-template name="startPageNumbering"/>
            <!-- The header and footer are inserted before the flow of topics -->
            <xsl:call-template name="insertBodyStaticContents"/>
            <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
	            <!-- Here comes the list of fo elements for all the topics -->

There are a couple of solutions:
1. force the publishing process to create new fo:page-sequences for each of the topics you need to customize. This is not a trivial task and requires heavily changing DITA XSL-FO stylesheets.
2. use a special kind of variables (fo:markers) that are expanded by the FO processor in the static content of the page.

For the second solution: In your XSL customization overwrite the template that matches the title of a topic, then add an fo:marker next to the content it generates.
This variable you can use later in the insertBodyOddFooter template, by using a fo:retrieve-marker.

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 <xsl:template match="*[contains(@class,' topic/topic ')]/*[contains(@class,' topic/title ')]">
    <xsl:next-match/>
    
    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="../[contains(@outputclass,'DEF')]">
            <fo:marker marker-class-name="var">DEF</fo:marker>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:when test="../[contains(@outputclass,'REV')]">
            <fo:marker marker-class-name="var">REV</fo:marker>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
            <fo:marker marker-class-name="var"/>
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="insertBodyOddFooter">
    <fo:static-content flow-name="odd-body-footer">
        <fo:block>&#160;</fo:block>
        <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="__body__odd__footer">
            <!-- THE FO PROCESSOR WILL USE THE MARKER ON EACH FOOTER IT GENERATES -->
            <fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name="var"/>
        
            <fo:block-container position="absolute">
            <fo:block padding-top="20pt" text-align="center">
            <fo:page-number/>
            </fo:block>
            </fo:block-container>
    </fo:block>
    </fo:static-content>
</xsl:template>

Another option would be to use the CSS based PDF transformation that is available in oXygen, is much easier to add text that is expanded in the footer, by using string sets ( a kind of variables). Here is a CSS snippet:

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*[class~= "topic/topic"][outputclass ~= "DEF"]{
    string-set: var "DEF";
}
*[class~= "topic/topic"][outputclass ~= "REV"] {
    string-set: var "REV";
}
*[class~= "topic/topic"][not(outputclass)] {
    string-set: var '';
}

@page chapter:right, chapter:left{
       
   @bottom-center {
       content: "Text that changes: " string('var')
   }

}

You can read more about customizing the PDF-CSS transformation here: https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/ ... n_css.html

[boopathyks]

Thanks Dan!!!! Its working well