How To Call Same Template Multiple Times Within a Template

ritagr · February 27th, 2017, 02:42 PM

Hello.

I have an XML file with parent tag <CLAIMCONTACT>that can appear n number of times. For each <CLAIMCONTACT> I need to generate a PDF file.

I'm using xslt and FO commands within my xml_pdf.fo file that reads the XML file. My final outcome from this xml_pdf.fo file is to always generate one PDF file. Then, for each occurrence of the <CLAIMCONTACT> tag, generate another copy of the same PDF along with a cover sheet in front.

Is this at all possible? Call xml_pdf.fo from within xml_pdf.fo to generate multiple copies of the PDF.

For example, if my XML file contains two <CLAIMCONTACT> tags, the output from xml_pdf.fo will be one PDF file with no cover sheet, then two of the same PDF file with the cover sheet as the first page.

Another idea I had was to print multiple copies of the PDF within the XSLT code, depending on the occurrences of <CLAIMCONTACT>.
Is there code available to do this?
I Googled it but could not find anything.
I current have the cover sheets printing correctly - one per <CLAIMCONTACT>.
Now I just need to get the PDF file that's generated from all the XML code for each cover sheet created.

Something else I'm trying to figure out is how to call/execute another fo file from within xml_pdf.fo.
Then within my <CLAIMCONTACT> <xsl:for-each ...> loop, I'll process the other fo file.
Here's my looping code:

Code:

<fo:simple-page-master master-name="disclaimer" page-height="27.94cm" page-width="21.59cm" margin-top="0.5cm" margin-bottom="1cm" margin- left="1cm" margin-right="1cm">
   <fo:region-body region-name="disclaimer"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>

      <!-- DEFINE PAGE SEQUENCE - (Attorney Cover Page(s)) -->
      <xsl:if test="/doc/EOB/CLAIMCONTACT/NUMBER[.!=''] and $varInfo='Y'">
        <xsl:for-each select="/doc/EOB/CLAIMCONTACT">
          <fo:page-sequence master-reference="disclaimer" force-page-count="no-force">
            <fo:flow flow-name="disclaimer">
              <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="attributes_NYNF">
                <fo:block padding="0pt" font-size="1pt">
                </fo:block>
                <xsl:call-template name="tmpAttorneyCoverPage">
                  <xsl:with-param name="vFirmName">
                    <xsl:value-of select="COMPANY_NAME"/>
                  </xsl:with-param>
                </xsl:call-template>
              </fo:block>
            </fo:flow>
          </fo:page-sequence>
        </xsl:for-each>
      </xsl:if>

I'm thinking this will be my best solution if possible!

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Rita

ritagr · February 28th, 2017, 01:20 PM

So after trying about thirty variations, I was able to get the code to work.
Instead of using <xsl:call-template> I changed it to <xsl:apply-template> with match="/doc" (so within the loop my XML code would be passed on to the template).