Re: position= and blocks (was And operator usage in XS

Thats for the info Eliot.

I have been looking at this and came up with this to place the two blocks
over one another:

<fo:block id="outer">
   <fo:block-container absolute-position="absolute">
      <fo:block>A</fo:block>
   </fo:block-container>
   <fo:block>B</fo:block>
</fo:block>

I think (please correct me if I am wrong) only one block-container is
necessary, and it will be positioned relative to its containing area (with
id="outer") so the two blocks will be over each other, and only the second
fo:block is in the normal flow.

So the whole file to test this is:


<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
 <fo:layout-master-set>
  <fo:simple-page-master master-name="front-page" margin="1.5cm"
page-height="297mm" page-width="210mm">
   <fo:region-body region-name="body" margin="0.75cm 0.5cm 0.75cm 3cm"/>
  </fo:simple-page-master>
 </fo:layout-master-set>
 <fo:page-sequence master-reference="front-page" initial-page-number="1">
  <fo:flow flow-name="body">
   <fo:block>
      <fo:block-container absolute-position="absolute">
         <fo:block>A</fo:block>
      </fo:block-container>
      <fo:block>B</fo:block>
   </fo:block>
  </fo:flow>
 </fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>

Any thoughts ?

John



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eliot Kimber" <ekimber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 8:58 AM
Subject: Re:  position= and blocks (was And operator usage in XSL)


> J.Pietschmann wrote:
>
> > john farrow wrote:
> >
> >> I have a question.  If you don't use relative-position, how would you
> >> position one block over another, for instance if you wanted to
> >> position some
> >> text over an image, and you wanted this to occur in the normal flow on
a
> >> page ?
>
> My normal practice is to use two absolute-positioned block containers
> within another normally-positioned block container with
> relative-position="static". That is, the root block container
> establishes a new reference area and the two child block containers are
> then absolutely positioned with respect to their containing reference
> area (which is itself in the normal flow of blocks).
>
> Here's my test, which gives the same results with XSL Formatter 2.5 and
> XEP 3.77:
>
>          <fo:block
>              font-family="sans-serif"
>              font-size="24pt"
>              line-height="110%"
>              space-before="12pt"
>            >Test of overlayed blocks using nested absolutely-positioned
> block containers.
>          </fo:block>
>          <fo:block-container
>                relative-position="static"
>                absolute-position="auto"
>                text-align="center"
>                display-align="center"
>                background-color="gray"
>                inline-progression-dimension="2.5in"
>                block-progression-dimension="2.5in"
>          >
>            <fo:block-container absolute-position="absolute"
>                left="0pt"
>                top="0pt"
>                z-index="1"
>                background-color="yellow"
>                inline-progression-dimension="2in"
>                block-progression-dimension="2in"
>                border-style="solid"
>                border-width="0.5pt"
>                border-color="blue"
>                ><fo:block>This is within a block container with z-index
> "1"</fo:block>
>            </fo:block-container>
>            <fo:block-container absolute-position="absolute"
>                left="0.5in"
>                top="0.5in"
>                z-index="2"
>                background-color="silver"
>                inline-progression-dimension="1in"
>                block-progression-dimension="1in"
>                border-style="solid"
>                border-width="0.5pt"
>                border-color="green"
>                ><fo:block>This is within a block container with z-index
>   "2"</fo:block>
>            </fo:block-container>
>          </fo:block-container>
>          <fo:block
>              font-family="serif"
>              font-size="26pt"
>              line-height="110%"
>              space-before="12pt"
>              start-indent="0.5in">This is after the block
> containers.</fo:block>
>      </fo:flow>
>
>
> -- 
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