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Mark_Overton@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I would love to use the Core Flow objects. I originally went in this > direction. I was unable, however, to find a clear and simple explanation > of these objects. I looked over the DSSSL references that I could find but > everything was described in SGML terms and I had difficulty understanding > it (I have no SGML/DSSSL background). Do you know where I could find an > explanation of the core flow objects which someone new to SGML could > understand. Actually, chapter 12.6 of the DSSSL spec. defines the flow objects and says almost nothing about SGML at all. > I still think there will be a need for format specific flow objects. Only very, very occasionally. > For > example, RTF allows a table of contents to be created. I could build this > from core flow objects but this would not allow the page numbers to be > synchronized in the document. Is there a DSSSL flow object for a table of > contents? Or am I thinking about this in the wrong way? There is a DSSSL feature for getting the page number of an element. This is used for cross references, tables of contents and indexes (among other things). "(page-number-sosofo) Returns an indirect-sosofo whose content is a sequence of character flow objects representing the page number of the page on which the first area resulting from the indirect flow object specified by the indirect-sosofo occurs." This paragraph certainly uses a lot of new terminology, but none of it is SGML terminology. All of it is DSSSL terminology, described in the DSSSL spec. Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware that he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier that year." - Timothy Burton, "James" XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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