Creating Flows: <fo:flows>

Flow objects have that name because the text in them “flows” and is arranged to fit the page by the displaying software. The content of a page is handled with flow objects.

There are two kinds of flow objects: <fo:staticcontent> and <fo:flow>. An <fo:staticcontent>flow object holds content, such as the text that goes into headers and footers, that will be repeated on the pages of the page sequence (as you’ll see in Chapter 12). The <fo:flow>flow object, on the other hand, holds the text itself that makes up the content of the document.

The following property applies <fo:flow>:

  • flow-name

I use a <fo:flow> element to handle the text content of planets.xml. To make sure the text content of planets.xml is transformed into ...

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