The best XSL-FO Area Properties Tutorial In 2024, In this tutorial you can learn XSL-FO region,XSL-FO Pages (page),XSL-FO Regions (area),XSL-FO Block Areas (block area),XSL-FO Line Areas (line area),XSL-FO Inline Areas (line area),
XSL-FO using a rectangular box (area) to display output.
XSL formatting model defines a series of rectangular area (block) to display output.
All output (text, pictures, etc.) will be formatted into the box, and then will be displayed or printed to a target media.
Let's look at the following areas:
XSL-FO output is formatted to the page. Printout usually divided into a number of pages. Regular browser output would be a long page.
XSL-FO Pages (page) contains a region (Region).
Each XSL-FO page contains a series of Regions (district):
XSL-FO Regions (district) area contains the block (Block Area).
XSL-FO Block Areas (block area) defines a small block elements (typically starting from a new line), such as paragraphs, tables and lists.
XSL-FO Block Areas (block area) contain other block areas, but most of the time they contain line region (Line Area).
XSL-FO Line Areas (line regions) within the region defined block of text.
XSL-FO Line Areas (line area) contains the line region (Inline Area).
XSL-FO Inline Areas (inline area) defined lines inside the text (italics, single characters, images, etc.).