On Wed, December 18, 2013 7:32 pm, Mario Madunic wrote:
I have a requirement where there is a block of text at the bottom of the
first page's body above the footer. The header, footer, and body each have
borders around them and a space around 0.25in between the header border
bottom and body border top and the footer border top and body bottom
border.
Instead of placing the text as part of the first page's footer, I used a
block-container and gave it the x and y positions to place it at the
bottom of the first page's body. At the moment body text is not flowing
onto the following page once it meets the block-container but continuing
through it. Which attribute(s) and value(s) can I use to force the body
content to flow around the block-container?
You may get the result you want by using 'absolute-position="fixed"'
rather than 'absolute-position="absolute"', but the spec is murky about
what the difference means in practice for your situation. It says
"Absolutely positioned areas are taken out of the normal flow." [3],
whereas 'xsl-fixed' areas get the same positioning but without the words
about 'taken out' and 'no impact'.
If your formatter [2] supports it, you could use a flow-map [1] and flow
the block of text into a region that appears only on the first page.
If you had a recent-enough AHF, you'd be able to float the block to the
bottom.
Regards,
Tony Graham tgraham(_at_)mentea(_dot_)net
Consultant http://www.mentea.net
Mentea 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland
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[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#fafm
[2] IIRC, you are using a not-current Antenna House version?
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#common-absolute-position-properties
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