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XSL-FO Book Structure

    

Since XSL-FO files are accounting in XML, all statements are organized into an XML

    

tree structure. Actuality is the syntax of the top akin of the tree:

    

<fo:root> <fo:layout-master-set>

    
  <fo:simple-page-master>

    
   arena acknowledgment statements to ascertain a individual page layout

    
  </fo:simple-page-master>

    
  ...

    
  <fo:page-sequence-master>

    
   page blueprint advertence statements to ascertain a page arrangement layout

    
  </fo:page-sequence-master>

    
  ...

    
 </fo:layout-master-set>

    
 <fo:page-sequence>

    
  breeze acknowledgment statements to map a breeze of block areas to a region.

    
 </fo:page-sequence>

    
 ...

    
</fo:root>

    

Note that I use the words "statement" and "element" interchangeably, because the written

    

of an XSL-FO account is an XML element.

    

Statements acclimated at the top levels are:

    

    
• "root": The starting point of an XSL-FO file.


    
• "layout-master-set": A alignment account that keeps all blueprint acknowledgment
  
      

  statements in one place.



    
• "simple-page-master": A acknowledgment account that defines a individual page layout.


    
• "page-sequence-master": A acknowledgment account that defines a page arrangement layout.


    
• "page-sequence": An activity account that generates areas to aftermath a page sequence.


    

"simple-page-master" Statements

    

"simple-page-master": An XSL-FO aspect confined as a acknowledgment account

    

to ascertain a individual page layout.

    

For example:

    

 <fo:simple-page-master master-name="my_layout"

    
  margin-top="1.0in" margin-bottom="0.8in"

    
  margin-left="0.8in" margin-right="0.6in">

    
 <fo:region-body region-name="my_body" 

    
  column-count="2" column-gap="0.2in"

    
  background-color="#cfcfcf" margin="0.2"/>

    
 <fo:region-before region-name="my_header"

    
  extent="0.2in" display-align="after"/>

    
 <fo:region-after region-name="my_footer"

    
  extent="0.2in" display-align="before"/>

    
 <fo:region-start region-name="my_left_sidebar"

    
  extent="0.2in" display-align="after"

    
  reference_orientation="90"/>

    
 <fo:region-end region-name="my_right_sidebar"

    
  extent="0.2in" display-align="before"

    
  reference_orientation="90"/>

    
</fo:simple-page-master>

    

Obviously, a page is disconnected into 5 regions:

    

 ----------------

    
|    Afore    |

    
|--------------|

    
|S |        |  |

    
|t |        |E |

    
|a |  Physique  |n |

    
|r |        |d |

    
|t |        |  |

    
|--------------|

    
|    Afterwards     |

    
----------------

    

Some absorbing attributes in the acknowledgment statements:

    

    
• margin-x: Specifies white spaces at four edges of the page, if acclimated in
  
      

  simple-page-master statement.



    
• region-name: A accustomed name for this region. It will be use in the breadth generation
  
      

  statements to specify in which arena the areas are placed.



    
• column-count: Amount of columns of argument to be generated in this region.


    
• reference_orientation: A circling bend of the inline progression direction
  
      

  from its absence - from larboard to right.



    
• margin: Is a autograph for four altered margins with the aforementioned value.


    
• extent: Specifies how abysmal a bound arena is. A bound arena takes a way
  
      

  space from the physique region. So you haveto specify abundant allowance in body-region, so
  
      

  that argument from the physique arena is not overlapping with the argument in the bound regions.



    
• background-color: Specifies the accomplishments blush for all areas that will be
  
      

  stacked into this region.



    
• display-align: Armament the block areas to adjust to one bend of the region.
  
      

  For example, display-align="after" is bare in region-before to adjust argument to
  
      

  the basal of the attack area.