Special Edition Using XSLT

Areas

Processing a stylesheet involves breaking down the whole document into increasingly smaller pieces, and then applying formatting information to each of those pieces. For example, if you wanted to format a book, you would have a number of different pieces which made up the book: a cover, a title page, and chapters. Each chapter, in turn, would consist of paragraphs, made up of sentences, composed of characters.

XSL stylesheets work in a similar fashion, only abstracted to allow for a variety of document types. The highest level in XSL are regions. Regions in turn are broken down into block areas, which consist of line areas and inline areas.

Regions

Regions are large rectangular areas at the top of the object hierarchy. For example, a ...