Glenn,

not sure how that came to be. Well, Area defines various features that
probably won't be used for Page/PageViewport. But if it helps, we can
surely revisit that.

On 07.07.2010 07:16:54 Glenn Adams wrote:
> Is there a good/strong reason why PageViewport and Page are defined as
> subclasses of AreaTreeObject rather than Area? In my recent work to add full
> support for the writing-system trait, I found it to be more consistent to
> redefine these as subclasses of Area. After all, the XSL-FO spec defines
> them as a viewport/reference area pair as generated by fo:page-sequence, so
> notionally speaking, they should be first class areas.
> 
> By the way, changing them to Area did not produce any regression in the
> junit tests, so it does not seem a breaking change at first order.
> 
> Regards,
> Glenn




Jeremias Maerki

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