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Mark

Mark

Sets an invisible mark into the output. This is helpful when you want to know on which page the mark is placed on.

Child elements

(none)

Parent elements

Action, Flow

Attributes

pdftarget (yes or no, optional)
Set a pdf target that can be referenced by A
select (XPath expressions)
The name of the mark to be set.

Example 

<PageFormat width="210mm" height="4cm"/>

<Record match="data">
  <PlaceObject>
    <TextBlock>
      <Paragraph>
        <Value>
          Row
          Row
          Row
          Row
        </Value>
      </Paragraph>
    </TextBlock>
    <TextBlock>
      <Action>
        <Mark select="'textstart'"/>
      </Action>
      <Paragraph>
        <Value>
          Row
          Row
          Row
        </Value>
      </Paragraph>
    </TextBlock>
  </PlaceObject>
  <ClearPage/>
  <Message select="sd:page-number('textstart')"></Message>
</Record>

Info

Marks get saved for subsequent runs.

See also

LoopMessage