Comments below.
-----Original Message----- From: Keiron Liddle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 24, 2003 10:59 PM
Exactly. All definitions regarding retrieve-position exclusively refer to the "current page". There is not a single word on what should happen if there is no matching marker on the current page but several on the previous page which are eligible. FOP picks the last, but there is absolutely nothing in the spec which backs this, and I searched thoroughly last weekend.
For the current page or containing page I take it to mean like so (assuming doc or page-sequence boundary): If we are on the third page of a document and we want to retrieve a "first-starting- within-page" then it will look on page 3, if it finds the marker then fine. If not then there is no such area (on the current page) and it should look at page 2. Page 2 is now the containing page and it looks for a marker that is "first-starting-within- page" on page 2. Then page 1... Admitedly it doesn't actually say that, but I can't interpret the wording otherwise.
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I re-read the spec so exhaustively that my eyes are burning. :-) I think Keiron is right.
Looking at it again, I disagree. The "containing page" is the page containing the first area generated or returned by the children of the retrieved fo:marker. That is, the page on which the fo:retrieve-marker occurs in the static-content. This will only vary if the retrieval forces a re-layout.
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