Subject: [xsl] FO 1.1 floating-page tables: is PSMI still needed? From: "Deborah Pickett" <debbiep-list-xsl@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 12:48:22 +1000 (EST) |
I should start by saying that I am familiar with Page Sequence Master Interleave (PSMI) (http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/resources/psmi/). Since FO 1.1 processors are rather thin on the ground, this is more of a theoretical question. I came away from reading the FO 1.1 spec not knowing if it supports this. One of the consequences of the way PSMI does its thing is that it isn't a true float: the landscaped table page is in line with the flow on the adjacent pages. In practice, that means that the preceding page will not be full. Certainly, a block cannot straddle the table page (say, a paragraph starting at the bottom of the preceding page and continuing at the top of the following page). It's this kind of floating-page table that I want: the table sits on a page near its reference point ("see Table 1"); it may be rotated; it may extend over more than one page; the regular flow of the body text is not affected. XSL 1.1 has flow maps and other enhancements to page sequences, but I don't know if it knows enough to do what I want. Is this kind of processing simply beyond the expressiveness that FO 1.1 is capable of? I'm OK about using XSLT to munge the FO source a la PSMI.
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