What Andreas argues here is what I would think as well: The LMs are tied to the formatting objects, not to the page regions they populate.
Regards, Simon On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:10:40PM +0200, Andreas L. Delmelle wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Glen Mazza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Hi, > > > I see two LM classes that appear misnamed, which can > > cause confusion as to their purpose: > > > > 1.) FlowLayoutManager is defined as "the layout > > manager for an fo:flow object" -- but actually it can > > also be for an fo:static-content object if the static > > content is directed to the region-body of the page. > > So, IIC you're considering the FlowLM or StaticContentLM as being unrelated > to the fo:flow or fo:static-content objects --or at least: more related to > the page-regions than to the formatting objects? > > Agreed that, according to the XSL Spec. --WD or not--, it's allowed to > redirect the fo:static-content (for example) to a different region than > 'before' or 'after', but it could be argued that another option is to let > the StaticContentLM take care of the redirection of the fo:static-content to > the right region... I suppose the current StaticContentLM should already > allow for redirection to either 'xsl-region-before' or 'xsl-region-after', > so it should be quite straightforward to add 'xsl-region-body' as another > alternative (?) After all, there is a key difference between Flow and > StaticContent when considering markers: the first one can contain > fo:markers, while the second one can only retrieve them... > One aspect that *does* seem to become increasingly important is the > inter-play of the StaticContentLM and the FlowLM --if both can layout to the > same region(s). > > IMO there is no solid argument against the *reason* itself for this > renaming --on the contrary, it seems more than reasonable--, but regardless > of its validity, I do have my doubts on the end-result of the proposed way > to solve the related issues... > > > Cheers, > > Andreas > -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.nl
