Re: [docbook-apps] How to get total number of pages in the footer?

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Bob Stayton wrote:

> Has anyone else solved this problem?

Yes, but I used two passes for formatting. During the first pass 
document was formatted, then I used itext 
(http://www.lowagie.com/iText/) to read the total number of pages from 
PDF. This number was used to generate new FO file for the second pass.

As itext is written in Java, you can call it directly from Saxon. Just 
place itext.jar into Java classpath and then use itext directly from 
XSLT stylesheet:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
		xmlns:itext="com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader"
		exclude-result-prefixes="itext"
                 version="1.0">

<xsl:variable name="totalNumberOfPages" 
select="itext:getNumberOfPages(itext:new('document.pdf'))"/>

...

				Jirka



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