FOP Mechanics

From 91c602140583f0aa4b5516fd074833b607f00b19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: fotis Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 12:36:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] describes fop architecture (author: Arved Sandstrom) git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xmlgraphics/fop/branches/release-0-13-0@193357 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- docs/architecture.html | 276 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 276 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/architecture.html diff --git a/docs/architecture.html b/docs/architecture.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f1f7472b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/architecture.html @@ -0,0 +1,276 @@ +FOP Mechanics

+ +


	Introduction

+ +

+The overall process is controlled by org.apache.fop.apps.Driver. In +this class, a typical sequence is:

+ +

Driver driver = new Driver();

driver.setRenderer("org.apache.fop.render.pdf.PDFRenderer", version);

driver.addElementMapping("org.apache.fop.fo.StandardElementMapping");

driver.addElementMapping("org.apache.fop.svg.SVGElementMapping");

driver.setWriter(new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(args[1])));

driver.buildFOTree(parser, fileInputSource(args[0]));

driver.format();

driver.render();

+ +


	Formatting Object Tree

The class org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder is responsible for actually +constructing the FO tree. The key SAX events used are

startElement(),

endElement() and characters().

+ +

All formatting objects derive from abstract class +org.apache.fop.fo.FONode. The other FO classes inherit from +FONode as follows:

+ +

FONode

|

__________|________

| |

FObj FOText

|

|___________________

| |

FObjMixed SequenceSpecifier +

+ +

FO's extending FObj:

+ +

Package org.apache.fop.fo.pagination:

+ + +

LayoutMasterSet

PageSequence

RegionAfter

RegionBefore

RegionBody

Root

SequenceSpecification

SimplePageMaster

+ + +

Package org.apache.fop.fo.flow:

+ + +

BlockContainer

DisplayGraphic

DisplayRule

DisplaySequence

Flow

InlineGraphic

ListBlock

ListItem

ListItemBody

ListItemLabel

PageNumber

StaticContent

Table

TableBody

TableCell

TableColumn

TableRow

+ +

FO's extending SequenceSpecifier:

+ +

Package org.apache.fop.fo.pagination:

+ + +

SequenceSpecifierAlternating

SequenceSpecifierRepeating

SequenceSpecifierSingle

+ +

FO's extending FObjMixed:

+ +

Package org.apache.fop.fo.flow:

+ + +

Block

InlineSequence

SimpleLink

+ +


	FONode

+The class inheritance described above only describes the nature of the +content. Every FO in FOP also has a parent, and a Vector of children. The +parent attribute (in the Java sense), in particular, is used to enforce +constraints required by the FO hierarchy. +

+ +

+FONode, among other things, ensures that FO's have a parent, that they +have children, that they maintain a marker of where the layout was up to +(for FObj's it is the child number, and for FOText's it is the character +number), and that they have a layout() method. +

+ +


	Making FO's

+ +

+Every FO class has code that looks something like this: +

+ +

public static class Maker extends FObj.Maker {

public FObj make(FObj parent, PropertyList propertyList)

throws FOPException

{

return new SimplePageMaster(parent, propertyList);

}

+ + +

+The class also has a static method that resembles +

+ +

public static FObj.Maker maker()

{

return new PageSequence.Maker();

}

+ +

+A hash 'fobjTable' exists in FOTreeBuilder, and maps the FO names (such as +'fo:table') to object references to the appropriate factories +(such as Table.Maker). +

+ +

+Properties (recall that FO's have properties, areas have traits, and XML +nodes have attributes) are also a concern of FOTreeBuilder. It +accomplishes this by using PropertyListBuilder, which contains a hash of +property names and their respective makers. The base class for +properties is Property, and the property makers extend +Property.Maker. +


	FO Formatting

+ +

+FOTreeBuilder calls format() on the root FO, passing +it the AreaTree +reference. In turn, Root calls format() on each +PageSequence, passing it +the AreaTree reference. +

+ +

+The PageSequence format() method does the following things: +

+ +

Makes a Page, using PageMasterFactory to produce a +PageMaster, and +using makePage() in the latter class. In the simplest picture, +a Page has +5 areas represented by AreaContainers;
Handles layout for StaticContent objects in the 'before' and 'after' +regions, if set. This uses the layout() method in +StaticContent;
If a page break is not forced, it will continue to layout the flow into +the body area (AreaContainer) of the current page;
It continues with (1) when layout into the current page is done, but +the flow is not empty.

+ +


	Area Layout

+ +

+FO's that represent actual areas, starting with Flow and +StaticContent, have +a layout() method, with the following signature: +

+ +

++ public Status layout(Area area) + +

+ +

+The fundamental role of the layout() method is to manage the layout of +children and/or to generate new areas. +

+ +

+Example: the layout() method for Flow generates no new areas - it manages the +layout of the flow children. +

+ +

+Example: the layout() method for Block +generates a new BlockArea in and of +itself, and also manages the layout of the block children, which are added +to the BlockArea before that is itself added to its parent +Area. +

+ +

+Layout() methods are subject to the general constraint that possibly not +all of their children can be accommodated, and they report back accordingly +with an appropriate Status. +

+ +


	Rendering

+ +

+This is a separate process. The render() method in +Driver is invoked (say, +by CommandLine) with the laid-out AreaTree and a +PrintWriter as arguments. +This actually calls the render() method in a specific implementation of +the Renderer interface, typically PDFRenderer or +AWTRenderer. +

+ +

+At the highest level PDFRenderer, for example, begins by rendering each +Page. The render() method in Page (as is the case for other areas), +invokes a particular method in the renderer of choice, e.g. +renderPage(). +NOTE: this system is bypassed for Page, incidentally. +

+ +

+Rendering will not be discussed further in this document, as most of our +current effort must concentrate on layout. Section 4.12 in the XSL WD +discusses some issues applicable to rendering. +

+ +

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