A XSL-FO reference

XSL Formatting Objects Reference

The process that converts a description into a presentation is called formatting.

Object	Description
Basic-Link	Represents the start resource of a link
Bidi-override	Overrides the default Unicode bidi direction
Block	Defines a block of output (e.g. Paragraphs and titles)
Block-container	Defines a block-level reference-Area
Character	Specifies a character that will be mapped to a glyph for presentation
Color-Profile	Defines a color-profile for a stylesheet
Conditional-page-master-Reference	Specifies a page-master to be used when the conditions defined are true
Declarations	Groups global declarations for a stylesheet
External-graphic	Used for a graphic where the graphics data resides outside of the XML result tree
Float	Typically used to position an image in a separate area at the beginning of a page or to position an image to one side, with the content flowing along-side of the image
Flow	Contains all elements to be printed to a page
Footnote	Defines a footnote within the region-body of a page
Footnote-body	Defines the content of the footnote
Initial-property-Set	Formats the first line of an <FO: block>
Inline	Formats a part of a text with a background or enclosing it in a border
Inline-container	Defines an inline reference-Area
Instream-foreign-Object	Used for inline graphics or for "generic" objects where the object's data resides as descendants of <FO: instream-foreign-Object>
Layout-master-Set	Holds all masters used in a document
Leader	Used to generate "." To separate titles from page numbers in table of contents, or to create input fields in forms, or to create horizontal rules
List-block	Defines a list
List-item	Contains each item in the list
List-item-body	Contains the content/body of the list-item
List-item-label	Contains the label for the list-item (typically a number, character, etc .)
Marker	Used with <FO: retrieve-marker> to create running headers or footers
Multi-case	Contains (within an <FO: Multi-switch>) Each alternative sub-tree of XSL-FO objects. The parent <FO: Multi-switch> will choose which alternative to show and hide the rest
Multi-Properties	Used to switch between two or more property-Sets
Multi-property-Set	Specifies an alternative property-set that will be applied depending on the state of the User Agent
Multi-Switch	Holds one or more <FO: Multi-case> objects and controls the switching between them (activated by <FO: Multi-Toggle>)
Multi-Toggle	Used to switch to another <FO: Multi-case>
Page-Number	Represents the current page-Number
Page-number-Citation	References the page-number for the page that contains the first normal area returned by the cited object
Page-Sequence	A container for page output elements. There will be one <FO: page-sequence> object for each page layout
Page-sequence-Master	Specifies which simple-page-masters are to be used and in which order
Region-after	Defines a page footer
Region-before	Defines a page header
Region-body	Defines a page body
Region-end	Defines the right sidebar of a page
Region-start	Defines the left sidebar of a page
Repeatable-page-master-Alternatives	Specifies repetition of a set of simple-page-masters
Repeatable-page-master-Reference	Specifies repetition of a single simple-page-Master
Retrieve-marker	Used with <FO: marker> to create running headers or footers
Root	The root (top) node for XSL-FO documents
Simple-page-Master	Defines the size and shape of a page
Single-page-master-Reference	Specifies a page-master to be used at a given point in the sequence of pages
Static-content	Contains static content (e.g. headers and footers) that will be repeated on outgoing pages
Table	Formats the tabular material of a table
Table-and-Caption	Formats a table and its Caption
Table-body	Container for table rows and table cells
Table-Caption	Contains the caption for a table
Table-Cell	Defines a table cell
Table-Column	Formats the columns of a table
Table-footer	Defines a table footer
Table-Header	Defines a table Header
Table-row	Defines a table row
Title	Defines a title for a page-Sequence
Wrapper	Specifies inherited properties for a group of XSL-FO objects