J.Pietschmann wrote: > There is a comment in Flow.java (soon/now AbstractFlow.java) > // flow is *always* laid out into a BodyAreaContainer > > I was not able to find support for this directly in the > spec, although I think this is reasonable. > > Can anybody comment on this? >
(Inferring from layout/Page.java in the maintenance branch that BodyAreaContainer is used for the fo:region-body object, and that AreaContainer is used for the other regions). The following sections of the standard seem to at least imply a contrary conclusion: 6.4.13, 1st pointer: "Typically, for paged media, the areas returned by the fo:flow formatting object in a fo:page-sequence are made to be descendants of a sequence of region-reference-areas that correspond to the region-body. These region-reference-areas are all area descendants of page-areas for which the page-master included an fo:region-body. If the fo:flow flow is assigned to some other region, then the areas returned by the fo:flow are constrained to be descendants of region-reference-areas generated using the assigned region-master." 7.25.5, para before last pointer: "The flow-name and region-name are used to assign the flow's content (or static-content's content) to a specific region or series of regions in the layout. In XSL this is done by specifying the name of the target region as the flow-name. (For example, text placed in the region-body would specify flow-name="xsl-region-body".) >From these two sections, my understanding of the fo:static-content object is that it is a sort of specialized fo:flow object, a subclass if you will (or perhaps each is a subclass of some higher abstraction). They each have exactly one property, "flow-name", and it appears that either should be able to point to any region within the page-sequence-master object. I would interpret the code comment to apply to the FOP implementation, not the standard. I agree that this limitation is reasonable, but perhaps it should be documented, and perhaps should include appropriate exceptions. Of course, if it doesn't cost much, I suppose it would be better to comply with the standard. Victor Mote (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Enterprise Outfitters (www.outfitr.com) 2025 Eddington Way Colorado Springs, Colorado 80916 Voice 719-622-0650, Fax 720-293-0044 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
