XSL-FO for Standard Purchase Order, doesn't print page number

Question

Hi,
I worked on XSL-FO code to custom the PDF output for Standard PO. Everything works great: I added company logo (in a different position of the standard commented code <!-- Too easy just to uncomment... :-)--> ), i created new attribute sets to highlight some elements on the print, I added a footer with company details and document type and number (instead of placing this in the header, the costumer didn't like it where it was..)
OK. BUT: the page number at the bottom on the right isn't printed anymore. For example: if the PO page is n.1 of 2 pages, it comes only '12' and not Page 1 of 2. So i tought not to use the original template (tihs one)
<!-- Template for displaying the page numbers -->
<!-- bug#3836856: Template for displaying the page numbers at right bottom of the page -->
<xsl:template name="pageNumber">
     <xsl:variable name="po_page">
     <xsl:value-of select="$BOILER_PLATE_MESSAGES_OBJ[MESSAGE='PO_FO_PAGE'][1]/TEXT"/>
     </xsl:variable>
     <!-- Get the String before the PAGE_NUM token -->
     <xsl:variable name="string_before_page_num">
     <!-- <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($po_page,'&amp;PAGE_NUM')"/>-->
     <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($po_page,'Pag.;PAGE_NUM')"/>
     </xsl:variable>
     <!-- Get the String after the PAGE_NUM token -->
     <xsl:variable name="string_after_page_num">
     <!-- <xsl:value-of select="substring-after($po_page,'&amp;PAGE_NUM')"/>-->
     <xsl:value-of select="substring-after($po_page,'/ ;PAGE_NUM')"/>
     </xsl:variable> ......
but inseriting a select just where I want the page num to be displayed (see code)
<fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="test_style" >
<xsl:value-of select="$BOILER_PLATE_MESSAGES_OBJ[MESSAGE='PO_FO_PAGE'][1]/TEXT"/>
                                                  </fo:block>
but this gave me as result 'Page &PAGE_NUM of &END_PAGE'.
Where did I do wrong?? It's like the PO_FO_PAGE message is not dinamically insered in the PDF. Hope I've been clear enough and somene can help me. Thaks in advance, Michele

Answer 1

Hi Michele:
I can check out for you how to print page number in XSL-FO (There is an O'Reilly) book, but I think I help you better by recommending a different strategy - Don't write XSL-FO stylesheets. While Purchasing does not support RTF templates you can still write RTF templates and convert them to FO using the XML Publisher Template Builder for Word.
Download the matching Template Builder for Word (5.0) or XML Publisher Desktop 5.5 (includes the Template Builder) patch and then Create your template as an RTF template.
You can then EXPORT the template as XSL-FO stylesheet and upload as to Purchasing AS LONG AS THE VERSION OF THE DESKTOP and E-Businees Suite XML Publisher MATCH.
If you still want to write XSL stylesheet, you can just use the Template Builder to generate you the code and paste the code (e.g. for page numbers) into your stylesheet.
By the way - Purchasing will support RTF templates in future versions...
Hope that helps,
Klaus