January 2002
Intermediate to advanced
480 pages
11h 5m
English
Content preview from Special Edition Using XSLT
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Content Areas
Now that you have an idea of how pages are structured and instantiated by the XLS processor, you’ll see how content is arranged on the page. Three objects are used to place content on the page: flows, static-content, and blocks. Flows and static-content objects are actually containers, in which blocks can be placed to render the actual content. Let’s look at these objects and their syntax.
flow AND static-content
There are actually two kinds of flows: flow and static-content. The flow object is used as a container for block elements that are designed to flow from one page to another, such as the text of a chapter. The control of the flow is determined by the XSL processor, based on the constraints placed on the page using object ...