An XSL-FO footnote is an out-of-line formatting object. To generate a footnote and its citation the <fo:footnote> formatting object is used. The <fo:footnote> has 2 children:
- <fo:inline> used to generate a footnote's citation and
- <fo:footnote-body> used to generate a footnote's content.
Footnotes usually are devided from the rest of the text by a separator. A separator is created in xsl-footnote-separator that can be placed into the <fo:static-content> element.
Here is a simple example:
<fo:static-content flow-name="xsl-footnote-separator">
<fo:block>
<fo:leader leader-pattern="rule" leader-length="50%"
rule-style="dashed" rule-thickness="0.5pt"/>
</fo:block>
</fo:static-content>
<fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
<fo:block font-size="13pt" font-weight="bold">Examples for using XSL Fomatting Objects</fo:block>
<fo:block>
<fo:leader leader-length="1em"/>
</fo:block>
<fo:block>This is the first footnote exmaple<fo:footnote>
<fo:inline baseline-shift="super" font-size="10pt">
[1]
</fo:inline>
<fo:footnote-body>
<fo:block font-size="7pt">
[1] This is the first footnote boby
</fo:block>
</fo:footnote-body>
</fo:footnote>
</fo:block>
<fo:block>This is the second footnote exmaple<fo:footnote>
<fo:inline baseline-shift="super" font-size="10pt">
[2]
</fo:inline>
<fo:footnote-body>
<fo:block font-size="7pt">
[2] This is the second footnote body
</fo:block>
</fo:footnote-body>
</fo:footnote>
</fo:block>
</fo:flow>
</fo:page-sequence>
The above content will be rendered as:
