Re: [docbook-apps] About computing total pages

[Dave Pawson <davep@dpawson.co.uk>]

Rolando Duma wrote:
> Hi all,
> this is my first post on this list,
> I'm learning DocBook and now I'm trying to put the total number of pages 
> in the header of my FO customization layer.I red on the internet about 
> this and found only a trick that suggest to put a special tag a the end 
> of the document and use this in the customization layer for computing 
> the total pages.I would like to know if this is still the preferred way 
> to adopt or maybe with the new stylesheets or docbook 5 there is a 
> cleaner way to accomplish this.
> Thanks in advance for your help and specially Mr. Walsh and Mr. Stayton 
> for the great work made on DocBook.

Yes, that's the only way.

http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect3/N8703.html#d13707e31
explains it.




regards

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Dave Pawson
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