Thanks Ken. It does help a bit. Unfortunately that's what we suspected. I was just hoping.<div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Al <div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:58 PM, G. Ken Holman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gkholman@cranesoftwrights.com">gkholman@cranesoftwrights.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">At 2008-11-21 14:16 -0800, A Seifert wrote:<br>
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Is it possible to create an FO document that includes another FO document?<br>
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Not by reference, but when using XSLT you can merge portions of FO found in other documents into the FO stream you are creating.<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
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Like how an HTML file can include an external CSS?<br>
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No, not like that. XSL-FO is designed such that the entire instance has all of the information except for external graphics. You cannot even share static content between page sequences or re-use other groups of formatting objects because the design allows the formatter to do a lot of garbage collection when finished with page sequences.<div class="Ih2E3d">
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I've been looking for "include" but I can only find references for inclusion with regards to XSLT, not FO.<br>
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Right ... *that* inclusion is for managing stylesheet fragments. There is no equivalent concept in XSL-FO.<br>
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I hope this helps your understanding of the specification.<br>
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