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On Wed, December 18, 2013 7:32 pm, Mario Madunic wrote: > I have a requirement where there is a block of text at the bottom of the > first page's body above the footer. The header, footer, and body each have > borders around them and a space around 0.25in between the header border > bottom and body border top and the footer border top and body bottom > border. > > Instead of placing the text as part of the first page's footer, I used a > block-container and gave it the x and y positions to place it at the > bottom of the first page's body. At the moment body text is not flowing > onto the following page once it meets the block-container but continuing > through it. Which attribute(s) and value(s) can I use to force the body > content to flow around the block-container? You may get the result you want by using 'absolute-position="fixed"' rather than 'absolute-position="absolute"', but the spec is murky about what the difference means in practice for your situation. It says "Absolutely positioned areas are taken out of the normal flow." [3], whereas 'xsl-fixed' areas get the same positioning but without the words about 'taken out' and 'no impact'. If your formatter [2] supports it, you could use a flow-map [1] and flow the block of text into a region that appears only on the first page. If you had a recent-enough AHF, you'd be able to float the block to the bottom. Regards, Tony Graham tgraham@xxxxxxxxxx Consultant http://www.mentea.net Mentea 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- XML, XSL-FO and XSLT consulting, training and programming Chair, Print and Page Layout Community Group @ W3C [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#fafm [2] IIRC, you are using a not-current Antenna House version? [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#common-absolute-position-properties
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