Basic FO page

Christopher A. Brooks

This provides a basic page layout, necessary for any inclusions.

<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
 <fo:layout-master-set>
  <!-- layout for the first page -->
  <fo:simple-page-master master-name="first" page-height="29.7cm"
     page-width="21cm" 
     margin-top="10cm" 
     margin-bottom="10cm" 
     margin-left="10cm"
     margin-right="10cm">
   <fo:region-before extent="18cm"/>
   <fo:region-body margin-top="18cm"/>
   <fo:region-after extent="6.5cm"/>
  </fo:simple-page-master>
  <!-- layout for the other pages -->
  <fo:simple-page-master 
     master-name="rest" 
     height="29.7cm" 
     width="21cm"
     margin-top="1cm" 
     margin-bottom="2cm" 
     margin-left="2.5cm"
     margin-right="2.5cm">
   <fo:region-before extent="2.5cm"/>
   <fo:region-body 
     margin-top="2.5cm" 
     margin-bottom="5.0cm"/>
   <fo:region-after extent="1.5cm"/>
  </fo:simple-page-master>

  <!-- How should the sequence of pages appear? -->
  <fo:page-sequence-master master-name="PageLayout">
   <fo:repeatable-page-master-reference master-name="rest"/>
  </fo:page-sequence-master>

 </fo:layout-master-set>
 <!-- end: defines page layout -->

 <!-- actual layout -->

  <!-- Title Page -->
  <fo:page-sequence master-name="first">
   <!-- header -->
   <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before">
    <!-- Inserts a leader (rule). 
     Because leader is an inline fo you have to
     wrap it into a block element  -->       
     <fo:block text-align="end"
     font-size="10pt" 
     font-family="serif" 
     line-height="14pt">
     Version <xsl:value-of select=".//verson"/>, <xsl:value-of
     select=".//doctitle"/>
     </fo:block>
   </fo:static-content>
  </fo:page-sequence>

  <!-- Make a separate sequence for the non cover sheet -->
  <fo:page-sequence master-name="PageLayout">
   <!-- header -->
   <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-before">
    <!-- Inserts a leader (rule). 
     Because leader is an inline fo you have to
     wrap it into a block element  -->       
     <fo:block text-align="end"
     font-size="10pt" 
     font-family="serif" 
     line-height="14pt">
          Version <xsl:value-of select=".//verson"/>, <xsl:value-of
select=".//doctitle"/>
            <fo:leader leader-pattern="rule"
                      space-before.optimum="2pt"
                       space-after.optimum="6pt"
                       start-indent="0cm"
                       end-indent="0cm"/>
           </fo:block>
   </fo:static-content>

   <!-- footer -->
   <fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-region-after">
    <fo:block 
     text-align="end" 
     font-size="10pt" 
     font-family="serif"
     line-height="14pt">Page <fo:page-number/>
    </fo:block>
   </fo:static-content>

   <!-- Main Body-->
   <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
    <xsl:apply-templates />
   </fo:flow>
  </fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>

Eliot Kimber

If you have a free edge region, you should be able to do it by making that region overlap the region-body and put a fixed-size block-container in it. Depending on the FO implementation and what you're placing within the body, there may be an issue with controlling z-index but if nothing will overlay the border it should always render (as long as you don't have an opaque background on your region-body).