Page-sequence support

Subject: Page-sequence support
From: Richard Light <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 10:10:25 +0000
In message <003201bd481c$c074b4c0$6f50ebca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Frank A.
Christoph" <christo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>
>So, yes, I agree that multiline headers/footers are a common requirement.
>But before you criticize the holy grail--- I mean, the DSSSL online
>standard, you should note that it is, after all, for online display and
>simple tasks.  While I know that there are many HTML pages now that have
>something resembling headers and footers, these things are not exactly
>natural concepts for web pages.  And they aren't needed for simple
>documents, at least according to my definition.

Specifically, these inline-only page headers and footers are a
characteristic of the simple-page-sequence flow object class.  What we
need to resolve this (and many other problems relating to pagination) is
an implementation of the page-sequence flow object class.

Page-sequence looks fearsomely generalised and powerful to me, and it
may be that supporting the full page-sequence model is way beyond the
abilities of current back-ends.  Has anyone looked into this?

If there is, from a technical point of view, a feasible way forward
(perhaps a limited implementation of page-sequence), perhaps some
organisation might be willing to follow ISOGEN's excellent example, by
sponsoring the development of support for this flow object class (in
return for the community's everlasting gratitude!)?

Richard Light.

Richard Light
SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy
richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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