- From: Peter Sorotokin <psorotok@adobe.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 15:05:22 -0800
- To: "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>
- Cc: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, www-svg@w3.org
At 03:58 PM 11/2/2004 -0500, Robert O'Callahan wrote: >Peter Sorotokin wrote: > >>flowDiv can only be used on the top level (and there can be only a single >>flowDiv per set of regions) and flowPara can only be used inside of the >>flowDiv. flowDiv effectively switches from graphics layout to text layout >>(similarly to svg:text element), flowPara acts more like a tspan. They >>are quite different elements. > >Why not allow nested flowDivs to be consistent with HTML and avoid the >need for flowPara? flowDiv is more like html:body than html:div. It is an element that hosts the flow, not a block-level element. Top-level flow elements (html:body, svg:text, fo:flow) are normally not allowed to nest like that. It is also quite different from flowPara from the implementation point of view. Maybe it should be renamed into flowBody. Peter >Rob > >-- >Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> >"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word >was God. ... The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We >have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the >Father, full of grace and truth." 1 John 1:1,14
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