[xsl] block-container, with position="absolute"

[Philippe Drix <pdrix@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have a problem of with block-container, with position="absolute".

I have tried the following code with XEP and FOP, which don't produce the 
same result.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";>
<fo:layout-master-set>

    <fo:simple-page-master
        margin-right="2.499cm"
        margin-left="1.101cm"
        margin-bottom="4.001cm"
        margin-top="0.64cm"
        page-width="21cm"
        page-height="29.7cm"

        master-name="first">

    <fo:region-before   extent="29.7cm - 0.64cm - 4.001cm"/>
    <fo:region-body margin-top="12.3cm" margin-bottom="3.101cm" />
    <fo:region-after extent="3cm"/>

    </fo:simple-page-master>
</fo:layout-master-set>

<fo:page-sequence   master-reference="first">
    <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before">

        <fo:block-container
                height="25.5cm" width="17.576cm" top="0cm" left="0cm" 
position="absolute"
                border-color="red" border-width="0.011cm" border-style="solid"
                >
                <fo:block font-family="sans-serif" 
font-size="8pt" >foo</fo:block>
        </fo:block-container>

    </fo:static-content>



    <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
        <fo:block font-family="sans-serif" font-size="8pt" >bla bla</fo:block>
    </fo:flow>

</fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>

Both XEP and FOP draw the red rectangle.
With XEP its left and top edges are placed on the left and top edges of the 
paper sheet (page viewport area), while with FOP they are placed on the 
left and top edges of the page reference area (ie the page minus the page 
margins).

I think the result produced by FOP is correct with respect to the XSL-FO 
Recommandation, but I am not sure, and I would be pleased if somebody could 
give his opinion.

Regards -- Ph D

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