[xep-support] Landscape tables at end of document?

[Clary, Brian D.]

On Tuesday, January 06, 2004 9:30 AM G. Ken Holman wrote:

> At 2004-01-06 08:56 -0500, Clary, Brian D. wrote:
> >In our publications, we sometimes append tables to the end 
> of the document,
> >and if the table width is greater than portrait width, we 
> landscape orient
> >those particular pages.
> 
> If you can tell from the markup that you need a table to be 
> in landscape 
> orientation, and you don't need to somehow measure the 
> formatted table to 
> make up your mind, then check out the free PSMI formatting 
> semantic for 
> XSL-FO on our web site.  It is found in the "Free Resources" 
> area of our 
> web site noted below.
> 
> In fact, a table in landscape orientation is the exemplar 
> that I use to 
> document the use of the PSMI.
> 
> >I've tried to duplicate this with XSL-FO; first
> >with a landscape page master, but I haven't found out how 
> (if at all) to
> >conditionally use this page master.
> 
> Yes, XSL-FO 1.0 requires you to preset your page geometry 
> sequencing and 
> you can't modify it "on the fly" or engage a different page 
> master dynamically.
> 
> >Second, I tried a <fo:block-container>
> >landscape oriented around the table.  This did indeed orient 
> the table
> >landscape within the page, but if the table overflowed the 
> page, it did not
> >continue on a new page.
> 
> Yes again, this is illustrated in my documentation of PSMI as 
> I, too, tried 
> this approach to the formatting requirement.
> 
> >Any ideas on how I might be able to do this?
> 
> The PSMI is a formatting semantic for those tables at the top 
> of the flow 
> (child of <fo:flow>) that need to be presented in an arbitrary page 
> geometry in the middle of a sequence of other page 
> geometries.  It is a 
> two-step methodology: run your own stylesheet that produces a 
> mixture of 
> XSL-FO+PSMI output, and then run the provided PSMI XSLT 
> stylesheet to read 
> XSL-FO+PSMI to create pure XSL-FO that can then be formatted. 
>  Using the 
> PSMI you indicate for the table the specific page geometry 
> that you need, 
> and the PSMI stylesheet breaks up the given page sequence 
> into as many page 
> sequences as is needed for the desired presentation.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> ............................ Ken

Thanks, Ken, this appears to be what we'll need.  I ran across a small
problem though.  Currently, just to test, I've set up an XSL-FO+PSMI file,
and would like to know how to get RenderX to tranform the XSL-FO+PSMI file
into an XSL-FO file.  Here is the command I'm using:

xep -valid -xml edis.fo -xsl psmi/psmi.xsl

And I get this error:

(document
[system-id file:/C:/XEP/edis.fo]
(compile Error on line 1020 column 23 of file:/C:/XEP/edis.fo:
  Error reported by XML parser: undeclared name prefix in:
psmi:page-sequence
Error on line 1272 column 7 of file:/C:/XEP/edis.fo:
  Error reported by XML parser: undeclared name prefix in:
psmi:page-sequence
Error
  XML Parsing failed
error: SAX parsing error: XML Parsing failed

Any help would be appreciated.

Brian
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