Question

I am generating html using XSL at the runtime. My task is to print signature section after all the data is printed. I am printing data like this:
Customer 1 data
Customer 2 data
Customer 3 data
Customer 4 data
Customer 5 data
Owner’s Signature
Each customer data has id, name, address, etc., upto 5 details per customer.
At the end of all customer data I need to print Owner’s signature section.
Right now the customer data is running till 3 pages, and owner section is printing in the first page only. But i need owners signature at the end of the 3 pages.

Answer 1

This is a simple example how to produce some wanted output at the end of processing everything else:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
 <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

 <xsl:template match="/*">
     <xsl:apply-templates/>

     Signature:
 </xsl:template>

 <xsl:template match="customer">
  Customer <xsl:value-of select="position()"/> data
 </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

when this transformation is applied on the following XML document:

<t>
 <customer/>
 <customer/>
 <customer/>
 <customer/>
 <customer/>
</t>

the wanted result is produced:

  Customer 1 data

  Customer 2 data

  Customer 3 data

  Customer 4 data

  Customer 5 data


     Signature:

Explanation:

All processing (disregarding non-element top nodes (it is safe to assume that no such exist) ) is captured in this template:

 <xsl:template match="/*">
     <xsl:apply-templates/>

     Signature:
 </xsl:template>

Because the string "Signature:" is physically the very last in the template, and because an XML document only has a single top element node and this template is selected only once, this guarantees that the string "Signature:" is the last output produced by the transformation.