- From: G. Ken Holman <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 11:58:36 -0400
- To: www-xsl-fo@w3.org
At 2003-06-27 21:40 -0700, Mark Lundquist wrote: >Anyway, sec. 7.5.1 in the Recommendation says that absolute-position >causes the area to be positioned relative to the area's "containing >area". I realized that I may have no idea what "containing area" >means. I searched Section 4 and could not find a definition. It is the area in the area tree below which (as a parent of) an area generated by the interpretation of a formatting object is placed. >Is an area A's containing area always the same thing as A's parent? >(Not all formatting objects generate areas, but only those that do can in >turn have as a child one that does... right?) Not quite ... out-of-line areas generated by a formatting object found in the object tree will be positioned elsewhere in the area tree than inline-areas. >Or would the "containing area" defined along the lines of "the nearest >ancestor X such that Y"? There are many trees in play ... check the diagram on page 45 of the free preview of our XSL-FO book (the preview includes the full text of the first three chapters). The instance tree, FO tree and Refined FO tree have parent, children and sibling objects. The area tree has parent, children and sibling areas. I hope this helps. .................. Ken -- Upcoming hands-on courses: in-house corporate training available; North America public: XSL-FO Aug 4,2003; XSLT/XPath Aug 12, 2003 G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/f/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) ISBN 0-13-065196-6 Definitive XSLT and XPath ISBN 0-13-140374-5 Definitive XSL-FO ISBN 1-894049-08-X Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath ISBN 1-894049-11-X Practical Formatting Using XSL-FO Member of the XML Guild of Practitioners: http://XMLGuild.info Male Breast Cancer Awareness http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/f/bc
Received on Saturday, 28 June 2003 11:58:54 UTC