Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

I'm trying to write an XSL-FO transformation of an XML stream that will produce a PDF. I'm using Jakarta's FOP library.

Being a big decomposition fan, I wrote one stylesheet to generate the first type of PDF. I'll call that "data", because it consists of several pages, all with the same format, where the number of pages depends on the size of the XML dataset.

Then I wrote a second stylesheet to generate a second type of PDF. I'll call that "summary", because it's a single page that uses a radically different format from the "data" page. It operates on the same XML stream.

Now I really need to combine these two in such a way that I operate on that XML stream and produce a single PDF that has a single "summary" page as the first page, followed by as many "data" pages as needed.

All the Jakarta FO examples that use more than one page master are of the "left/right" variety. My first feeble attempt to combine these two gives me the "summary" page just fine, but I'm not getting any of the following "data" pages.

Is it necessary to combine these into one XSL stylesheet? Is there any clever s'ware out there that could combine the two PDFs into one that I don't know about (e.g., iText)? I know iText is a Java API to generate PDFs. Can it concatenate two into one?

If someone could steer me to an example that might help me out I'd appreciate it. Just knowing that someone has done something like this would be a comfort.

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