Repeat fo:table-caption for a table that spans multiple pages question

How can I repeat the fo:table-caption for a table that spans multiple pages and add "- Continued" at the end of the table-caption on the subsequent pages. The tools I use are Oxygen Editor 16 as my XML editor and Arbortext Editor 6.1 to publish to PDF using its XSL-FO processor. Arbortext XSL-FO processor is equal to or slightly better than Apache FOP. At this time, I do not have the option to use a different FO processor. I prefer to try to solve it through XSLT and XSL-FO since I have more time and understanding invested in it, instead trying to learn how to create a FOSI file in Arbortext - I love learning but it takes time and deadlines seem to come too quickly. XSLT is fairly new to me and I am still learning; please forgive my ignorance if I stated something incorrectly in that regard. I am restricted to customer-provided DTD and XSL files even though I can modify the XSLT to solve a particular issue like I posed. It is my understanding that the XSL code implements the XSLT 2.0 and XSL-FO 1.1 standards. Fo:retrieve-table-marker is not supported by these processors. I have tried the various methods of using fo:retrieve-marker that I have found through several forums but I was not successful in solving this specific problem even though I did learn new stuff which allowed me to get this far. The best I was able to do was use fo:retrieve-marker for table caption in a static-content area but it repeats the table-caption on every page in the page header instead of displaying directly above the table. Below is my code snippet: <!-- fo:retrieve-table-marker - does not work with Apache FOP or Arbortext Editor 6.1 F000 --> <xsl:template match="/"> <fo:root> <fo:layout-master-set> <fo:simple-page-master page-width="8.5in" page-height="11in" master-name="first"> <fo:region-body margin-right="1in" margin-left="1in" margin-bottom="1in" margin-top="1in" /> <fo:region-before extent=".5in" /> <fo:region-after extent=".5in" /> </fo:simple-page-master> </fo:layout-master-set> <fo:page-sequence master-reference="first"> <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before"> <fo:table-caption> <fo:block font-weight="bold" text-align="center"> <!-- fo:retrieve-marker --> <fo:retrieve-marker retrieve-class-name="table-caption-continued" retrieve-position="first-starting-within-page" /> </fo:block> </fo:table-caption> </fo:static-content> <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after"> <fo:block text-align="center"> <fo:page-number /> </fo:block> </fo:static-content> <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body" font-family="sans-serif"> <xsl:apply-templates /> </fo:flow> </fo:page-sequence> </fo:root> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="table"> <fo:table-and-caption> <fo:block> <!-- fo:marker --> <fo:marker marker-class-name="table-caption-continued"> <xsl:apply-templates select="title" /> </fo:marker> </fo:block> <fo:block> <fo:marker marker-class-name="table-caption-continued"> <xsl:apply-templates select="title" /> - Continued </fo:marker> </fo:block> <fo:table width="100%" table-layout="fixed"> <fo:table-column column-width="50%" /> <fo:table-column column-width="50%" /> <fo:table-header> <fo:table-row> <fo:table-cell border="solid"> <fo:block font-weight="bold"> <xsl:apply-templates select="tgroup/thead/row/entry[1]" /> </fo:block> </fo:table-cell> <fo:table-cell border="solid"> <fo:block font-weight="bold"> <xsl:apply-templates select="tgroup/thead/row/entry[2]" /> </fo:block> </fo:table-cell> </fo:table-row> </fo:table-header> <fo:table-body> <fo:table-row> <fo:table-cell border="solid"> <fo:block> <xsl:apply-templates select="tgroup/tbody/row[1]/entry[1]" /> </fo:block> </fo:table-cell> <fo:table-cell border="solid"> <fo:block> <xsl:apply-templates select="tgroup/tbody/row[1]/entry[2]" /> </fo:block> </fo:table-cell> </fo:table-row> <fo:table-body> <fo:table-row> <fo:table-cell border="solid"> <fo:block> <xsl:apply-templates select="tgroup/tbody/row[2]/entry[1]" /> </fo:block> </fo:table-cell> <fo:table-cell border="solid"> <fo:block> <xsl:apply-templates select="tgroup/tbody/row[2]/entry[2]" /> </fo:block> </fo:table-cell> </fo:table-row> ... </fo:table-body> </fo:table> </fo:table-and-caption> </xsl:template> I appreciate any assistance in trying to solve this problem. David Coe Senior Technical Editor 407.514.2332 Office 407.508.9959 Mobile david.coe@gdit.com<mailto:david.coe@gdit.com> E-mail www.gdit.com<http://www.gdit.com> Website General Dynamics Information Technology Defense Solutions Division Integrated Security and Instrumentation Solutions 12249 Science Drive, Suite 220 Orlando, Florida 32826
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