Hi Colin,
in your example you forget to write the <fo:page-master-reference
...
BTW this example breaks FOP and I think is a bug ...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";>
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master margin-bottom="10mm" margin-right="10mm"
margin-left="10mm" margin-top="10mm" page-width="210mm" page-height="297mm"
master-name="PortraitA4">
<fo:region-body margin-bottom="10mm" margin-right="10mm" margin-left="10mm"
margin-top="10mm"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
<fo:page-sequence-master master-name="test">
<fo:single-page-master-reference master-name="PortraitA4"/>
</fo:page-sequence-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-name="PortraitA4">
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<fo:block>This is the first unpositioned block inside the flow
<fo:block absoulute-position="auto" background-color="blue"
top="5mm" left="5mm" height="10mm" width="45mm">
<fo:block>inside</fo:block>
</fo:block-container>
</fo:block>
<fo:block>This is the second unpositioned block inside the
flow</fo:block>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
Fabio
-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Savage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 07 September 2001 16:43
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: block-container with block
Here is the fo I am working with
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";>
<fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:simple-page-master margin-bottom="10mm" margin-right="10mm"
margin-left="10mm" margin-top="10mm" page-width="210mm" page-height="297mm"
master-name="PortraitA4">
<fo:region-body margin-bottom="10mm" margin-right="10mm" margin-left="10mm"
margin-top="10mm"/>
</fo:simple-page-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>
<fo:page-sequence master-name="PortraitA4">
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<fo:block line-height="30mm">
<fo:block-container absolute-position="auto" background-color="blue"
top="5mm" left="5mm" height="10mm" width="45mm">
<fo:block>inside</fo:block>
</fo:block-container>
</fo:block>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
Q1. Is this valid? and should it produce the result i am looking for?
block inside region-body
--------------
|\ |
| \5mm x 5mm |
| \_______ |
| |inside | |
| |_______| |
| |
|____________|
If I run this through fop 0.20.1, it falls over, because BlockContainer is
expecting an AreaContainer object that it can use to get X and Y coords. By
modifying that code to use the Area object instead of the AreaContainer when
the parent is a BlockArea it doesn't fall over anymore but I can only get a
thin blue line at the top of the block. Unfortunately I don't really have a
clue about Java other than the basics, so I don't understand how these
blocks and containers are positioned.
Colin.
-----Original Message-----
From: Giannetti, Fabio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 07 September 2001 05:12
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: block-container with block
Hi Colin,
yes, you can have a block-container that is not absolute positioned
.... if you specify absolute-positioning="auto" it will automatically
considered like to be relative-positioned. There is a substantial difference
between a block with relative position and a block-container with
abs-pos="auto" and is related to the kind of generate areas ... the block
will generate a normal flow area and the block-container a static one, so if
you specify also a size the content will be truncated if it is too long.
Back to the block case if the content is too long will flow into a new page
starting from the beginning of the region body.
It sounds clear ? I hope so ... Fabio
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