XSL-FO Concepts

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Page Layouts

Page Layout: A specification of layout and pagination constrains on the output medium.

Page layouts are organized as:

• "simple-page-master": A specification of a single page.
• "page-sequence-master": A specification of a sequence of pages.

Page layouts are defined independent of areas. They are used as constrains while stacking areas on the output medium.

Formatting Objects

Formatting Object: A semantic element in the XSL-SO language. Its like a class of objects in Java language.

There are three types of formatting objects:

• Formatting objects that generate areas. Objects produced by "fo:block" statements are good examples of this type.
• Formatting objects that return areas, but do not generate them.
• Formatting objects that are used as parameters in the area generation process. Objects produced by "fo:simple-page-master" statements are good examples of this type.

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