[SOLVED] FO List Block change style

FO List Block change style

I am using XSL FO list block to show bullet points. Is it possible to change list-style-type to show square (or other shape)? In HTML, it is <ul style="list-style-type:square;">

Code:

<fo:list-block>
<fo:list-item>
 <fo:list-item-label>
   <fo:block>*</fo:block>
 </fo:list-item-label>
 <fo:list-item-body>
   <fo:block>Volvo</fo:block>
 </fo:list-item-body>
</fo:list-item>
<fo:list-item>
 <fo:list-item-label>
   <fo:block>*</fo:block>
 </fo:list-item-label>
 <fo:list-item-body>
   <fo:block>Saab</fo:block>
 </fo:list-item-body>
</fo:list-item>
</fo:list-block>

Solution

Put the character that you want in place of the *:

<fo:list-item-label>
  <fo:block color="blue" font-weight="bold" font-size="1.3em">✪</fo:block>
 </fo:list-item-label>

This looks like a lot of work compared to <ul style="list-style-type:square;">, but:

You typically only need to do this once, since you are generating the XSL-FO using XSLT
You have complete control over the content, size, weight, colour, alignment (see relative-align: https://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/#relative-align), and position of the list item label (and, as above, you typically only need to set that up once)
If you want to, you could change, e.g., the colour of the bullet for each list item by using position() in your XSLT
When you look at numbering list items, you'll see that xsl:number makes it easy to generate hierarchical numbers to use in list item labels. (If you were using AH Formatter, you'd also be able to use a bunch of predefined counter styles: https://www.antenna.co.jp/AHF/help/en/ahf-ext.html#axf.counter-style.)