Is this a limitation in XML Publisher ??!!

Question

Hi,
I need to confirm that somebody here did a normal invoice using XML Publisher before. what I mean by normal invoice is that
customer: --- Date -----
Item | quantity | price | amount
item1 | 5 | 10 | 50
item2 | 1 | 100 | 100
Total 150
one hundred fifty dollars
no matter how many items, the total should come at the end of the invoice and if the number of items cant fit in one page this totals will be only in the last page of the invoice
my question is there anyone did this before. we used to do it using anchoring in report builder but I am unable to find similar thing here in XML Publisher
this will affect my company decision of going to this technology or not because not only invoice, we have statement of account that have aging need to be in the same way, and some other reports

Answer 1

Part of the fun is figuring it out on your own.
Anyhow, we have used a fixed number of lines per page, which works if you prevent lines from wrapping. To do the latter:
<xsl:attribute xdofo:ctx="block" name="wrap-option">no-wrap</xsl:attribute><xsl:attribute xdofo:ctx="block" name="overflow">hidden</xsl:attribute>
For fixed number of lines:
<?for-each@section:G_CHECKS?><xsl:variable xdofo:ctx="incontext" name="group" select=".//G_INVOICES"/><xsl:variable xdofo:ctx="incontext" name="check" select="../G_CHECKS"/><?for-each:$group?><?if:(position()-1) mod $lpp=0?><xsl:variable name="start" xdofo:ctx="incontext" select="position()"/>
<xsl:variable name="blanks" xdofo:ctx="incontext" select="number($lpp)-(count($group)-number($start)+1)"/>
Put each below into a blank row in table.
<?if:$blanks>=39?><?end if?>
<?if:$blanks>=38?><?end if?>
<?if:$blanks>=37?>
<?if:$blanks>=36?>
Not enough time to explain... give it a try, experiment a little and provide specific questions if you get stuck.
Brett