[xep-support] Space-before ignored and background color overlap?

[i.de.jong at everest.nl]

Hello
We're having trouble understanding why XEP doesn't honour the space-before 
of the first
block (the text is rendered at the top of the page, rather than 35mm 
down).
Subsequent blocks are okay.

Why is the first space-before ignored?


Secondly, where is the red square with the text "Relative"? It appears to 
be
hidden behind the yellow container (by looking at XEP's XML output).
If we remove the yellow background of the outer block-container, it shows 
up.


Thanks for any clarification,
   Irmen de Jong
   Everest b.v.


PS. the FO used is as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" 
xmlns:fox="http://xml.apache.org/fop/extensions">
        <fo:layout-master-set>
                <fo:simple-page-master master-name="onePage" 
margin-left="0mm" margin-right="0mm" margin-bottom="0mm" margin-top="0mm" 
page-width="210mm" page-height="297mm">
                        <fo:region-body region-name="body" 
margin-top="0mm" margin-bottom="0mm" margin-left="0mm"/>
                </fo:simple-page-master>
                <fo:page-sequence-master master-name="normalPages">
                        <fo:single-page-master-reference 
master-reference="onePage"/>
                </fo:page-sequence-master>
        </fo:layout-master-set>
        <fo:page-sequence master-reference="normalPages">
                <fo:flow flow-name="body">
                        <fo:block space-before="35mm">Just some 
text</fo:block>
                        <fo:block space-before="35mm">Just some more 
text</fo:block>
                        <fo:block-container position="absolute" 
left="10mm" top="240mm" height="50mm" width="100mm" 
background-color="yellow">
                                <fo:block>Some text at a specific 
location</fo:block>
                                <fo:block-container position="absolute" 
left="15mm" top="15mm" height="10mm" width="20mm" background-color="red">
                                        <fo:block>Relative</fo:block>
                                </fo:block-container>
                        </fo:block-container>
                </fo:flow>
        </fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>
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