Thank you so much, Jeni and Ken.

I am able to use a class-like attribute-set to format
the page now.  That is really a smart and clean way.

I also used the external-graphic to display a picture.
I've not checked the book as Ken suggested.  But I'll
do so.

Yan



--- Jeni Tennison <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Yan,
> 
> > Just began to work on a project by using XSL-FO.
> As in html page, we
> > can use CSS to define a class to format a html
> page. I am wondering
> > how I can define a class to do a similar trick b/c
> it is very
> > cumbersome for me to set the text formatting for
> every <fo:block>.
> 
> If you're generating XSL-FO using XSLT (as is
> intended), attribute
> sets can be really useful. Define an attribute set
> for each 'class',
> so things like:
> 
> <xsl:attribute-set name="paragraph">
>   <xsl:attribute name="font-size">12</xsl:attribute>
>   <xsl:attribute
> name="text-align">justify</xsl:attribute>
>   ...
> </xsl:attribute-set>
> 
> You can then use an attribute set on a particular
> fo:block with
> xsl:use-attribute-sets:
> 
>   <fo:block xsl:use-attribute-sets="paragraph">
>     ...
>   </fo:block>
> 
> Attribute sets can be based on other attribute sets,
> and you can use
> several attribute sets on any particular element if
> you want to (in
> effect having several classes).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeni
> 
> ---
> Jeni Tennison
> http://www.jenitennison.com/
> 
> 
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