Question

I’m using XSL-FO markers to generate running heads, and I’m having trouble retrieving the book title. I have a workaround, but I thought there must be a more elegant solution. Since the book title only appears as text at the beginning of the book, my marker is not in the same page-sequence as my static-content. Is there a mechanism for retrieving an out-of-page-sequence marker?

I am using XSLT Formatter V 4.3 for my PDF generation, but I’m not married to it.

A very simplified XML example:

<book>
<bktitle>Alice in Wonderland</bktitle>
<chapter>
<chaptitle>Chapter 1</chaptitle>
<para>This is the story of Alice in Wonderland.</para>
</chapter>
</book>

Snippets of the XSL-FO:

<fo:page-sequence master-reference="fm">
  <fo:title>Alice in Wonderland</fo:title>
  <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
     <fo:block font-variant="small-caps">
        <fo:marker marker-class-name="book">Alice in Wonderland</fo:marker>Alice in Wonderland</fo:block>
  </fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>

<fo:page-sequence master-reference="body">
  <fo:title>Chapter 1</fo:title>
  <fo:static-content flow-name="header">
     <fo:block><fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name="book"/></fo:block>
  </fo:static-content>
  <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
     <fo:block font-variant="small-caps">
        <fo:marker marker-class-name="chapter">Chapter 1</fo:marker>Chapter 1</fo:block>
     <fo:block>This is the story of Alice in Wonderland.</fo:block>
  </fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>

Answer 1

It should work if you use retrieve-boundary="document":

<fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-boundary="document" retrieve-class-name="book"/>