Jeremias Maerki wrote:
Add margin on simple-page-master as additional feature.
ATM, doesn't this raise a PropertyException saying that "Border and
padding for a region must be 0"?
The XSL 1.0 Recommendation states that "borders and padding are not
allowed with a page-reference-area" (6.4.12 fo:simple-page-master) and
that "the values of the padding and border-width traits must be 0."
(6.4.13 fo:region-body and for the other regions). This is not supposed to
change even in the upcoming 1.1 version, looking at the working
draft.
As having a border (and a padding too, necessarily) around the page is not
such an uncommon and unlikely situation, I was wondering if FOP should not
allow it, just warning the user about the non-standard feature that she/he
is using.
FWIW both xep and xslFormatter allows borders and paddings in a region;
xep warns that they are extensions, the other says nothing.
I agree that "everybody does this, why shouldn't we" is not a good reason;
but in this case there is a real need that cannot be satisfied in a
standard way.
For example, I tried to achieve the same result by setting a background
color for the page, and partially "covering" it with white regions ... but
a simple-page-master cannot have a background-color attribute according to
the standard! :-(
Regards
Luca
