fo:block-container and FOP compliance

Question

I would like to use fo:block-container in my XSLT sheets and resulting XSL-FO. For instance, to change the orientation of a table:

<fo:block-container 
 reference-orientation="90"
 break-before="page"
 break-after="page">
  <fo:table>
  <!--Table content-->
  </fo:table>
</fo:block-container>

Then, I apply FOP and generate a PDF from the XSL-FO.

The Apache FOP compliance page (http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/compliance.html) says that FOP is only partially compliant in the case of fo:block-container. Does anyone know which properties are not supported or how this is going to affect the resulting PDF?

Answer 1

I dont really know about fop compliance, but some time ago I used fop-extensions for rotating a container:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"  xmlns:fox="http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/extensions" version="2.0">
 <fo:block-container  position="absolute" fox:transform="rotate(90)">
    ...
 </fo:block-container>
</xsl:stylesheet>

find more information on fop extensions in the link below.

https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/trunk/extensions.html