Re: xsl-before-float-separator & xsl-footnote-separator

The 1.0 behaviour has been "reinstated" by restricting the sources in
a flow-assignment to be either all fo:flows or all fo:static-content.
This restriction was inadvertently left out when writing up
multiple flows.

Anders

>The editors,
>
>The behaviour of the above classes of static-content in the draft 1.1
>Recommendation of 16 December 2004 has not changed, as far as I could
>see, from the 1.0 Recommendation.
>
>There are some problems that are peculiar to these flows.  In XSL 1.0,
>the combination of implicit flow-map, uniqueness of region-name within a
>simple-page-master and the uniqueness of flow-names guarantees, if I am
>not mistaken, that any given region on a given page will be the target
>of at most one flow, be it fo:flow or fo:static-content.  In combination
>with the method of determining the dimensions of the region-body and the
>extents of the "border" regions, this ensures that the layout available
>to the fo:flow does not have to be adjusted depending on the contents of
>any fo:static-region.
>
>If retrieve-markers occurs in xsl-footnote-separator or
>xsl-before-float-separator, however, they directly impact the space
>available for the layout of fo:flow.
>
>This situation is different from that pertaining to
>fo:retrieve-table-marker, which more closely parallels the treatment of
>footnotes than that of marker retrieval in that the fo context is
>contained entirely within the fo:flow.
>
>The draft and the Recommendation provide for ad hoc restrictions on a)
>whether a conditional area is generated at all if there is insufficient
>space in the main-reference-area, and b) on the total b-p-d space that a
>conditional area can occupy.  These clauses do not seem to apply to the
>separators in isolation.
>
>If a survey of implementations revealed that marker retrieval was not
>implemented within xsl-before-float-separator & xsl-footnote-separator
>static-content, would there be any interest within the working group in
>constraining such static-content to exclude fo:retrieve-marker?
>
>Yours faithfully,
>--
>Peter B. West <http://cv.pbw.id.au/>
>Project Folio <http://defoe.sourceforge.net/folio/>

Received on Friday, 6 May 2005 19:30:02 UTC