XSL-FO tutorials for Beginners: XSL-FO area

The XSL-FO applies a rectangular box (area) to display the output. The XSL pattern model of the XSL-FO area defines a series of rectangular (area) boxes to display the output. All outputs are formatted into these boxes and then displayed or printed to a target media.

The XSL-FO applies a rectangular box (area) to display the output.

XSL-FO area

The XSL pattern model defines a series of rectangular (area) boxes to display the output.

All outputs are formatted into these boxes and then displayed or printed to a target media.

Let's look at the following areas:

Pages)

Regions)

Block areas (Block area)

Line areas (Row area)

Inline areas (intra-row area)

Pages XSL-FO)

The XSL-FO output will be structured into the page. The print output is usually divided into many split pages. Browser output is often a long page.

The XSL-FO page contains the Region ).

XSL-FO Regions (zone)

Each XSL-FO page contains a series of Regions (zones ):

Region-body (the subject of the page)

Region-before (page header)

Region-after (footer of the page)

Region-start (left column)

Region-end (right column)

XSL-FO Regions contains the Block Area ).

XSL-FO Block Areas)

The XSL-FO block area can define small block elements (typically starting with a new line), such as paragraphs, tables, and lists.

XSL-FO block areas can contain other block areas, but most of the time they contain Line areas ).

XSL-FO Line Areas)

The XSL-FO Row area defines text lines within the block area.

The XSL-FO line Area contains the line Area ).

XSL-FO Inline Areas (intra-row area)

The text inside the XSL-FO line is set inside the line (a duplicate number, a single character, an image, and so on ).