Do I understand that correctly that you propose to put the exact names of the predefined structure types in the role attribute and map to those type for tagged PDF? role="H1" would lead to a /H1? I think that should cover most normal use cases. So +1 from me on that.
In some future luxury version, however, I'd imagine allowing to define a mapping in fo:declarations (or in the configuration) so people can really put the original tag names in the role attributes and then use that mapping to produce the right structure type in tagged PDF. On 07.01.2010 13:39:19 Vincent Hennebert wrote: > Hi, > > Some time ago basic PDF accessibility was implemented in FOP [1]. Part > of the job is to store the document’s logical structure into the PDF > output [2]. Basically, store the information “This content was in > a block”, “that content comes from a table-cell”, etc. > > PDF defines a set of standard structure elements and FOP implements > a default mapping of FOs to those structure elements. For example, > fo:root is mapped to Document, fo:block to P (Paragraph), fo:table to > Table, etc. > > There is a need to do more fine-grain mapping, and be able to tag > certain fo:block as headers (H1 to H6) instead of simply Paragraphs. > That way the structure of the source document would be more accurately > represented in the PDF. > > The role property [3] has been defined pretty much for that purpose; > Its value should be the name of the element from which the FO comes, or > if it’s not enough the URI of an RDF resource describing some structure > type. > > Nothing is enforced, though (‘should’, not ‘must’) and I think we can > get away with directly putting a PDF standard structure type (Document, > Part, P, H1, Table, etc.). If a non-standard type is specified, we would > fall back to the default mapping and a warning could possibly be issued. > > Since PDF is the only output format that support logical structure at > the moment, that should be enough for now. > > I’m going to implement this enhancement in the next few days. Any > comments or suggestions are welcome. > > [1] http://markmail.org/thread/mjskmien2ha6agzb > [2] http://wiki.apache.org/xmlgraphics-fop/LogicalStructure > [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#role > > > Thanks, > Vincent Jeremias Maerki
