I know this is an old post, but hopefully this may help someone

 

When I wanted to do something like that I do this.  Create a template that formats the annotation (note the condition as to whether to render the annotation or not)

 

<xsl:template name="hcannotate">
 <xsl:param name="annotation.type"/>
 <xsl:param name="VARannotationText"/>
 <xsl:if test="/forrendering/alltemplates/stylesmode/text() = 'true'">
  <fo:block-container position="absolute" text-align="right" z-index="10" left="30mm" width="90%" height="auto">
   <fo:block color="red" font="8pt"><xsl:value-of select="$annotation.type"/>:<xsl:value-of select="$VARannotationText"/></fo:block>
  </fo:block-container>
 </xsl:if>

 

Then call it like this

 

              <xsl:call-template name="hcannotate">
               <xsl:with-param name="annotation.type" select="'style'"/>
               <xsl:with-param name="VARannotationText" select="'bodytext3'"/>
              </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>

 

So if I set /forrendering/alltemplates/stylesmode/text() to true I get lots of red text in my PDF, if I set it to false nothing appears.

 

It worked pretty well

 

Grant

Would it be possible to use XF Designer to add "comments" that are not shown in normal rendering, but in some way can be shown/extracted later? Maybe like javadoc, but for XF Designer temlates...

Eivind Løland-Andersen