On 29.07.2005 12:58:53 Luca Furini wrote: > Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > > Add margin on simple-page-master as additional feature. > > ATM, doesn't this raise a PropertyException saying that "Border and > padding for a region must be 0"?
Nope. Doesn't look like it. > The XSL 1.0 Recommendation states that "borders and padding are not > allowed with a page-reference-area" (6.4.12 fo:simple-page-master) and > that "the values of the padding and border-width traits must be 0." > (6.4.13 fo:region-body and for the other regions). This is not supposed to > change even in the upcoming 1.1 version, looking at the working > draft. Guilty as charged. I didn't remember that little detail. I did tests with a document that had this, so I tried it and it worked. :-) > As having a border (and a padding too, necessarily) around the page is not > such an uncommon and unlikely situation, I was wondering if FOP should not > allow it, just warning the user about the non-standard feature that she/he > is using. > > FWIW both xep and xslFormatter allows borders and paddings in a region; > xep warns that they are extensions, the other says nothing. > > I agree that "everybody does this, why shouldn't we" is not a good reason; > but in this case there is a real need that cannot be satisfied in a > standard way. Well, it doesn't hurt so much to do this. I think we should let this fail when strict validation is on, and issue a warning when strict validation is off. > For example, I tried to achieve the same result by setting a background > color for the page, and partially "covering" it with white regions ... but > a simple-page-master cannot have a background-color attribute according to > the standard! :-( I think that's a feature that has been asked for many times. It would be totally easy to allow a background on the simple-page-master. Again, we can let it fail with strict validation and issue a warning about the non-standard feature when strict validation is off. WDYT? Jeremias Maerki
