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