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XSL-FO

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 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.

 Anonymous   
PDF Page xv
oreilly/catalog/xslfo

Trying to download the example code from oreilly/catalog/xslfo results in an error message that things are not found on the server

I would like to get access to the sample code, please

Paul Wellens

 Paul Wellens  Dec 03, 2010 
Printed Page 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>

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 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.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 34
figure 3.2

"outer" page reference area should be page viewport area

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 39
figure 3.4

rb-rl should be tb-rl

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 51
Example 3-5

<fo:repeatable-page-master
should read
<fo:repeatable-page-master-reference

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 58-59
58: 1st, 2nd, 4th code block from bottom, 59 code blocks 1-5

comment lines missing prefix "<!-- ", these omissions cause the code to fail to compile.

 Anonymous  Sep 18, 2010 
Printed Page 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"

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 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"

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 179
halfway

"Its" misspelled as "It's"

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 180
halfway

"It" misspelled as "IT"

 Anonymous