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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introducing XSL-FO | |
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| XSL-FO in context | |
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| The XML family of Recommendations | |
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| Extensible Markup Language (XML) | |
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| Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL) | |
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| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) | |
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| Styling structured information | |
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| Styling is transforming and formatting information | |
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| W3C XSL Working Group | |
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| Two W3C Recommendations | |
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| Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) | |
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| Transformation by example | |
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| Not intended for general purpose XML transformations | |
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| Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL/XSL-FO) | |
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| Paginated flow and formatting semantics vocabulary | |
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| Target of transformation | |
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| Styling semantics and vocabularies | |
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| Transforming and rendering XML information using XSLT and XSL-FO | |
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| Interpreting XSL-FO instances directly | |
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| Generating XSL-FO instances | |
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| Using XSL-FO on a server | |
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| Examples | |
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| Hello world example | |
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| Training material example | |
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| Basic concepts | |
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| Formatting and rendering | |
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| Layout-based vs. content-based formatting | |
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| Formatting vs. rendering | |
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| Processing model | |
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| Formatting object XML vocabulary | |
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| Vocabulary structure | |
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| Direct vs. constraint property specification | |
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| Property value expressions | |
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| Inherited properties | |
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| Shorthand properties | |
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| Conformance | |
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| Top-level formatting objects | |
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| The root object | |
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| The layout-master-set object | |
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| The page-sequence object | |
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| The flow object | |
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| Grouping of formatting objects for the flow | |
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| Block-level objects | |
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| Inline-level objects | |
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| Neutral objects | |
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| Out-of-line objects | |
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| Out-of-line inline-level objects | |
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| Areas and pages | |
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| Area model details | |
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| Geometric rendered areas | |
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| Directions and writing modes | |
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| Margins, spaces, and positioning | |
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| Lengths and spacing | |
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| Area types | |
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| Stacking area and rectangle relationships | |
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| Allocation rectangles and alignment | |
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| Line areas | |
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| References in the area tree | |
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| Block and inline basics | |
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| Simple block and inline objects | |
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| The wrapper object | |
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| The block object | |
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| Preserving white space | |
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| The initial-property-set object | |
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| The inline object | |
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| The page-number-citation object | |
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| Container basics | |
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| Containers | |
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| The inline-container object | |
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| The block-container object | |
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| Page definition and sequencing | |
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| Simple page layout definition | |
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| Spans and columns in simple page geometry | |
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| The simple-page-master object | |
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| The region-body object | |
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| Page sequence titling | |
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| The title object | |
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| Generic body constructs | |
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| Lists | |
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| Aligned pairs of block-level constructs | |
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| List constructs | |
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| Nested list constructs | |
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| The list-block object | |
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| The list-item object | |
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| The list-item-label object | |
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| The list-item-body object | |
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| When is a list not a list? | |
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| Graphics and foreign objects | |
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| Non-textual information | |
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| The external-graphic object | |
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| The instream-foreign-object object | |
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| Links | |
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| Link requirements | |
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| The basic-link object | |
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| Leaders | |
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| Elastic and inelastic inline areas | |
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| Multiple leaders on a single line | |
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| Controlling the distance between leaders | |
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| The leader object | |
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| Tables | |
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| Tabular structure | |
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| Aligned tuples of block-level constructs | |
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| Table-related formatting objects | |
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| Tabular appearance | |
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| Table and cell borders | |
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| Spanning cells | |
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| Table and cell alignment | |
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| The table-and-caption object | |
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| The table-caption object | |
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| The table object | |
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| The table-column object | |
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| The table-header object | |
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| The table-footer object | |
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| The table-body object | |
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| The table-row object | |
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| The table-cell object | |
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| Static content and page geometry sequencing | |
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| Page regions, headers, and footers | |
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| Region dimensions | |
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| The region-before object | |
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| The region-after object | |
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| The region-start object | |
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| The region-end object | |
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| Content definition | |
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| Flowed content vs. static content | |
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| The static-content object | |
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| The page-number object | |
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| Dynamic content in static content | |
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| The market object | |
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| The retrieve-marker object | |
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| Planning a simple page sequence specification | |
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| Page Sequence Master Interleave (PSMI) | |
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| Page geometry sequencing | |
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| Patterning the page geometry in a sequence of pages | |
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| Page geometry sub-sequences | |
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| Forced blank pages | |
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| The page-sequence-master object | |
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| The single-page-master-reference object | |
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| The repeatable-page-master-reference object | |
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| The repeatable-page-master-alternatives object | |
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| The conditional-page-master-reference object | |
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| Overview of a page sequence specification | |
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| Planning a more complex page sequence specification | |
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| Floats and footnotes | |
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| Floats | |
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| Float definition | |
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| The float object | |
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| The interaction of blocks and floats | |
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| Footnotes | |
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| Footnote definition | |
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| The footnote object | |
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| The footnote-body object | |
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| Breaks, borders, and backgrounds | |
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| Breaks | |
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| Widows and orphans | |
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| Keeps | |
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| Keep conditions | |
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| Examples of keeps | |
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| Keep strength | |
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| Spacing, conditionality, and precedence | |
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| Borders | |
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| Backgrounds | |
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| Displaying backgrounds | |
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| Decorating page columns using a background | |
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| Interactive objects | |
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| Reflecting formatting object state by appearance | |
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| Dynamically changing property values | |
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| The multi-properties object | |
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| The multi-property-set object | |
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| Interactively changing the effective flow | |
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| Dynamically changing formatting object sub-trees | |
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| The multi-switch object | |
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| The multi-case object | |
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| The multi-toggle object | |
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| Supplemental objects | |
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| Specialty formatting objects | |
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| The importance of bidirectional text | |
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| The mechanics of mixing text of different writing directions | |
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| The bidirectional support challenge | |
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| The bidi-override object | |
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| The character object | |
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| The color-profile object | |
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| The declarations object | |
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| Using XSLT with XSL-FO | |
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| XSLT language features supporting XSL-FO | |
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| The xsl:attribute-set instruction | |
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| List numbering facilities | |
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| XSL-FO language features similar to XSLT and XPath | |
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| Expressions | |
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| Production summary | |
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| XSL-FO functions | |
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| Function summary | |
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| Function groupings | |
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| Functions summarized by name | |
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| Objects | |
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| Objects summarized by name | |
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| Objects summarized by type | |
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| Properties | |
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| Common properties | |
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| Common absolute position properties | |
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| Common accessibility properties | |
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| Common aural properties | |
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| Common border, padding, and background properties | |
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| Common font properties | |
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| Common hyphenation properties | |
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| Common margin properties--block | |
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| Common margin properties--inline | |
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| Common relative position properties | |
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| Data types | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Relevant standards | |
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| XSLT format tokens | |
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| Inheritance and shorthands | |
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| Inherited properties | |
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| Shorthand properties | |
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| Property summary | |
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| Choosing XSL-FO products | |
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| Index | |