I've updated Chapter 15 of the XML Bible, XSL Formatting Objects, to
cover the October 18 Working Draft of the XSL specification. See
http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible/updates/15.html
The changes in this draft were mostly fairly minor. In no particular order:
The fo:simple-link element was renamed fo:basic-link, probably to
avoid confusion with XLink simple links. Along the way it picked up
three new properties used to control the appearance and behavior of
the targeted document:
target-presentation-context
A URI that generally indicates some subset of the external
destination that should actually be presented to the user. For
instance, an XPointer could be used here to say that although an
entire book is loaded only the seventh chapter would be shown.
target-processing-context
A URI that serves as a base URI in the event that the external
destination contains a relative URI. Otherwise, that would be
considered relative to the current document. (I'm not a 100%
confident that I've interpreted this one correctly, but this seems
the most natural interpretation.)
target-stylesheet
A URI that points to a style sheet that should be used when the
targeted document is rendered. This will override any style sheet
that the targeted document itself specifies, whether through an
xml-stylesheet processing instruction, a LINK element in HTML, or an
HTTP header.
border-after-precedence, border-before-precedence,
border-start-precedence, and border-end-precedence attributes were
added to the table properties to specify what happens when, for
example, one cell's bottom border conflicts with the next cell's top
border.
Finally, a font-selection-strategy property was added to the font
properties. This property lets you specify whether surrounding
characters are considered when a font is chosen that best matches the
actual characters. This is a fairly
obscure property that only really matters if you're using multiple
scripts (e.g. English and Cyrillic) in the same document.
I may or may not have found all the significant differences between
the two drafts. I really wish W3C working groups would at least
publish reasonable change logs with each new draft.
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