The XSL-FO Formatting Properties

You use the XSL-FO formatting properties to customize the actions of the formatting objects that were listed in the preceding section, and you use formatting properties as element attributes in XSL-FO documents. For example, here’s how I use formatting properties to set the font family, font size, and font weight of text in a block:

<fo:block color="blue" font-family="Times" 
    font-size="36pt" font-weight="bold"> 
    Hello from XSL-FO! 
</fo:block>

You can find the complete list of XSL-FO properties and their descriptions at www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice7.html. Many of the XSL-FO properties are inherited from the specification for cascading stylesheets, version 2, CSS2, which you can find at www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2.

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