[xsl] static header in fo:region-before

["Mark Wilson" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

None of the XSL-FO reference material I had at hand treated the problem of 
vertical alignment of static content in the region-before (except to say 
that I could not control the edges parallel to the edge of the paper) , so 
by Easter egging the properties, I hacked a solution for keeping the header 
content down a bit from the upper edge of the region-before. I found that 
the whitespace-collapse ="false" property had no effect (or I misunderstood 
its use), so I used a hard blank.

Anyway, two questions.

(1) This has to be a common problem. Is there a better solution that I just 
could not find?
(2) is there an XSL-FO cookbook similar to the O'Reilly XSLT Cookbook that 
treats XSL-FO problems? Or a website?

Thanks,
Mark

<fo:static-content flow-name="odd-header">
  <fo:block space-after.conditionality="retain" 
space-after="0.25">&#160;</fo:block>
   <fo:block  text-align="center">The Czechoslovak Specialist</fo:block>
</fo:static-content>

<fo:static-content flow-name="even-header">
     <fo:block space-after.conditionality="retain" 
space-after="0.25">&#160;</fo:block>
      <fo:block text-align="center">21st Century Index</fo:block>
</fo:static-content>