Re: [xsl] position= and blocks (was And operator usage in XSL)

[Eliot Kimber <ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> However, reading the description relative-position I'm not 100% clear 
> what it means for blocks. My initial reading is that it has no effect 
> but I also grant that the description is confusing at best.
>
> Doing an experiment with XEP 3.77 and XSL Formatter 2.5 it appears that 
> relative-position has no effect on blocks. My test instance is below. 
> The first two blocks format the same with XSL Formatter. With XEP, the 
> second block is only 2in wide (the 1.0 spec is ambiguous about whether 
> width= is meaningful on fo:block). The second two blocks are formatted 
> with identical positioning by both formatters.

I suspect that the reason this has never come up is that the way to 
position things in XSL-FO with block-container.

So while it's interesting academically to know what relative-position 
*should* do, in practice it has no utility because you'd never use it 
anyway.

I suspect that the relative-position property is a CSS hold over that 
was supplanted by block-container relatively late in the development of 
XSL-FO 1.0. But I'm only guessing.

Cheers,

Eliot
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