XSL 1.1 WD fo:retrieve-table-marker

Paul,

Excuse me for firing off a comment from the hip, but I have just looked 
at the putative fo:retrieve-table-marker FO.  Prima facie, it looks to 
behave like fo:retrieve-marker, except with respect to table headers and 
footers.

The difference that immediately occurs to me is that fo:retrieve-marker 
can logically occurs after the layout of region-body, and, because the 
dimensions of those regions which are the targets of static-content are 
size-constrained by the applied master-page.  This simplifies the 
resolution of the marker.

With fo:retrieve-table-marker, the possibility seems to exist that the 
formatting of a table-marker may change the region-body layout, and the 
page boundaries, to the extent that the source fo:marker may change.  We 
have then another one of those awkward catch-22s of page layout.

I may have missed something in my brief scan of the text, and I would 
appreciate any light on the subject.  If my knee-jerk response is 
correct, fo:retrieve-table-marker can just be added to the list of 
layout "nasties".  It is hardly a show-stopper, given the similar 
unavoidable problems that already exist.

Another thing that occurs to me as a result of these considerations is 
that the editors might comment (even non-normatively) on such issues, 
and possible strategies for resolving them.  Your own non-normative 
feedback would be much appreciated.

Peter
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