XSL-FO - Making XML Look Good in Pring 
by Dave Pawson

The unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

Here's a key to the markup:
        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification

This page was updated March 26, 2007.


UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 


[xv]  1st para;
It says that examples are available but i cannot find them on the site. There is no
'examples' link on the books page as there is with, for example, XSLT.


[21]  Example 2-4. Basic stylesheet;
I attempted to run the above referenced code with the Antenna House XSL Formatter and
received this error: "Text not allowed here." I reviewed the XSLT style sheet, and I
believe the following code has an error because it is attempting to output text
directly into a <fo:flow></fo:flow> instead of into a <fo:block></fo:block>.

This is the code that threw the error:

<fo:page-sequence master-reference="only">
  <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
    <xsl:apply-templates />
  </fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>

I believe it should be changed to:

<fo:page-sequence master-reference="only">
  <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
    <fo:block>
      <xsl:apply-templates />
    </fo:block>
  </fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>


[24]  bottom;
I have the first printing of this book, but the correction listed under  "Changes
made in the 12/03 reprint" DOES NOT work correctly.

Try this instead:

  <xsl:template name="toc">
  <xsl:for-each select="section">
      <fo:block text-align-last="justify" text-indent="2em">
      <xsl:value-of
       select="head"/> <fo:leader
	  leader-pattern="dots"/> <fo:page-number-citation ref-id="{@id}"/>

     <xsl:call-template name="toc"/>

     </fo:block>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>



Then enclose the whole thing in a block with margin-left set to -2em.


(34)  figure 3.2;
"outer" page reference area should be page viewport area


(39)  figure 3.4;
rb-rl should be tb-rl


{51}  Example 3-5;
<fo:repeatable-page-master
should read
<fo:repeatable-page-master-reference


[105]  Example 5-23;
The table example does not work.  It only works if the appropriate <fo:table-column>
entries are inserted.

The entry border= is somewhat misleading, since border="1pt" does not work as
expected: the proper entry was:

border-width="1pt" border-style="solid"


{106}  4th Paragrah (First under 'Fixed width table and columns');
Reads: "To produce a fixed-width table, set table-layout to either a length..." The
above "table-layout" should be "inline-progression-dimension"


(179)  halfway;
"Its" misspelled as "It's"


(180)  halfway;
"It" misspelled as "IT"