Layout Sequence Example - Odd and Even Pages

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∟Layout Sequence Example - Odd and Even Pages

This section provides a tutorial example on how to use page-sequence-master to generate odd pages and event pages in different layouts in a single page sequence.

As the second tutorial example of "page-sequence-master", I wrote the following XSL-FO document, Odd-and-Even-Layout-Sequence.fo, that uses two layouts, one for odd pages and one for event pages, to build a layout sequence:

<?xml version="1.1" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- Odd-and-Even-Layout-Sequence.fo
 - Copyright (c) 2006 HerongYang.com. All Rights Reserved.
-->
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
 <fo:layout-master-set>
  <fo:simple-page-master master-name="cover" 
   margin-left="0.25in" margin-right="0.25in" 
   margin-top="1in" margin-bottom="1in" 
   page-height="2.3in" page-width="2.1in">
   <fo:region-body region-name="body" margin="0.25in"/>
  </fo:simple-page-master>
  <fo:simple-page-master master-name="odd" 
   margin-left="0.45in" margin-right="0.05in" 
   margin-top="0.25in" margin-bottom="0.25in" 
   page-height="2.3in" page-width="2.1in">
   <fo:region-body region-name="body" margin="0.25in"
   background-color="#eeeeee"/>
   <fo:region-after region-name="footer" extent="0.2in"/>
  </fo:simple-page-master>
  <fo:simple-page-master master-name="even" 
   margin-left="0.05in" margin-right="0.45in" 
   margin-top="0.25in" margin-bottom="0.25in" 
   page-height="2.3in" page-width="2.1in">
   <fo:region-body region-name="body" margin="0.25in"
   background-color="#eeeeee"/>
   <fo:region-after region-name="footer" extent="0.2in"/>
  </fo:simple-page-master>
  <fo:page-sequence-master master-name="content">
   <fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
    <fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="odd" 
     odd-or-even="odd"/>
    <fo:conditional-page-master-reference master-reference="even" 
     odd-or-even="even"/>
   </fo:repeatable-page-master-alternatives>
  </fo:page-sequence-master>
 </fo:layout-master-set>
 <fo:page-sequence master-reference="cover">
  <fo:flow flow-name="body">
   <fo:block>RIVER BANK</fo:block>
  </fo:flow>
 </fo:page-sequence>
 <fo:page-sequence master-reference="content">
  <fo:static-content flow-name="footer">
   <fo:block font-size="8pt" text-align="center">
    herongyang.com
   </fo:block>
  </fo:static-content> 
  <fo:flow flow-name="body">
   <fo:block>
    The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, 
    spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with 
    dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and 
    a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and
    splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back 
    and weary arms. Spring was moving in the air above and in the 
    earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly 
    little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. 
    It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush 
    on the floor, said 'Bother!' and 'O blow!' and also 'Hang 
    spring-cleaning!' and bolted out of the house without even waiting
    to put on his coat...
   </fo:block>
  </fo:flow>
 </fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>

When you process the above sample XSL-FO document to a PDF file and open it, you should see a number of pages with odd pages being formatted differently than even pages: