Re: [xsl] Understanding Conditionality of Borders

Subject: Re: [xsl] Understanding Conditionality of Borders
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 11:42:26 -0500
Good morning, Eliot,

At 2002-02-27 08:45 -0600, you wrote:
I'm trying to understand border conditionality.
...
Given that I probably never would have figured this out on my own had
the folks at Antenna House not put me on to border-width.conditionality,
I would urge the writers of XSL tutorials to include a discussion of
this important but subtle aspect of XSL-FO.

I'm in the process of doing this, Eliot, but I'm trying to think of a situation where you'd be bordering your blocks and not using something like a bordered table.


I'm assuming you are dealing with multi-line paragraph-like blocks and not small blocks like figure captions, since you don't get a page-break for a single-line block.

Can you share a use-case scenario where users will want to border their blocks?

Thanks for all your suggestions!

............. Ken


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