15Formatting Properties

A document can contain several style elements. To acquire a common set of formatting properties, all formatting properties are contained in formatting property elements which are included as a child elements of any style element. This container elements offers two important advantages, as follows:

�        Formatting properties can be addressed by [CSS2] or [XSLT] stylesheets regardless of the style type.

�        Styles contain additional information that is not a formatting property, for example, the style name and parent style. It is good practice to separate this type of information.

The following formatting property elements do exist:

�        <style:page-layout-properties> for page layout properties

�        <style:header-footer-properties> for page header and footer properties

�        <style:text-properties> for text properties

�        <style:paragraph-properties> for paragraph properties.

�        <style:section-properties> for text section properties.

�        <style:ruby-properties> for ruby section properties.

�        <style:list-level-properties> for list properties.

�        <style:table-properties> for table properties.

�        <style:table-column-properties> for table column properties.

�        <style:table-row-properties> for table row properties.

�        <style:table-cell-properties> for table cell properties.

�        <style:graphic-properties> for drawing object properties.