Special Edition Using XML, Second Edition

Properties

The XSL-FO objects themselves would not be nearly as useful were it not for the properties that can be manipulated to affect how an object is rendered. In the XSL-FO examples we have used so far, you have already seen properties such as font-size, which is a property used to specify the size (in points) of the font being used to display a line of text.

Properties are used to express a variety of qualities with objects, from the size and color of borders, to padding inside block areas, to background images and font sizes and colors. The XSL-FO properties are expressed as attributes, which are used with XML elements that represent objects. For example, with the block object element, we can use the font-family property attribute to specify ...