This articles describes how to create grouping logic in XSL-FO using Apache FOP. A common requirement while creating reports is to group data by a given field. While XSLT 2.0 provides a way to do this, XSLT 1.0 does not provide any functionality in this regard.

Easy to install and use free FOP Server. It converts input XML data to PDF files using XSL-FO templates and based on Apache FOP. It includes additional options as PDF digital signature, PDF forms and XSL-FO editor, these additonal options require a license. It can be used directly to test XSL-FO files and also at runtime you can call the server from your own programs using a HTTP request. It does not matter which programming language you use.

XSL-FO Designer and editor for Apache FOP. Graphical design tool of templates for converting XML to PDF. With this tool you load an XML file (and edit it) and with a few clicks you create a XSL-FO file which is used to convert your XML file to PDF. It can also create PDF interactive forms and it supports barcodes, charts, emails, xpath editor, grouping, xpath functions and user defined functions. The ouput can be used in different environments like web services, Oracle APEX (Application express), Apache cocoon, SAP PI, Oracle BPEL, JBI, AJAX and Java.

Free online XSL-FO book.

XF Designer 2007 is a user-friendly, easy to learn application that handles with ease all the complex parameters required for multi-language and multiple-color packaging. Templates (outputs) are XML documents that can be graphically created and edited within the XF Designer 2007.The XSL-FO documents can be later rendered using XF Rendering Server 2007 or any other XSL-FO renderer. Ecrion’s XF Designer 2007 builds upon an impressive array of features offered by XF Rendering Server for working with advanced XML Technologies like XSLT and Web services. Among these features, the most important are: offers design templates for database publishing or print-on-demand; creation of forms, catalogs, product sheets, invoices, price lists etc.; support for multiple output formats (PDF, XPS, HTML, XSL-FO, AFP and more); Word like layout editor (WYSIWYG); color spaces support for digital print (RGB and CYMK); creation of Barcodes via fonts or SVG graphics and other services.

Benchmarked for scalability, speed and performance, XF Rendering Server 2007 is a fully enterprise-class rendering product, providing support for two major industry standards: XSL-FO (Extensible Style Language Formatting Objects) describing how an XML document should be formatted for a variety of media as well as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) used to describe two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. XF Rendering Server 2007 software enables enterprises to dynamically create customized PDF, XPS, Postscript, HTML, JPEG, TIFF, AFP, INX and other files in a flexible, scalable, robust, and extremely rapid server environment. The complex set of features makes Ecrion XF suitable for almost any kind of document, including invoices, statements, brochures, postcards, catalogs and business reports containing charts and graphs, by dynamically generating them from XML.

Altova® StyleVision® includes the world's first visual XSL:FO designer to automate the writing of XSL:FO stylesheets through an intuitive, drag-and-drop user interface. Presenting data from XML applications and relational databases in PDF format is a common requirement in report generation and document management systems. Writing intricate XSL:FO stylesheets for transforming XML and database content to PDF format becomes easy with the robust visual editing capabilities of StyleVision. You can create your design, view the resulting XSL:FO stylesheet, and view the PDF output – all in the same user-friendly window. In addition, your single design simultaneously produces an Authentic form, as well as HTML and Word/RTF output and the associated stylesheets.

The tutorial provides a comprehensive tour of the features of XSL-FO an impressive language for generating professional looking PDF documents, giving several examples for each. Samples of the resulting PDF documents are also presented.

Oxygen offers intelligent support for FO editing and FO transformations which makes it ideal for developing XML-based publishing applications. Oxygen is a multi-platform XML Editor, XSLT/XQuery Debugger and Profiler written in Java. It supports XML, XSL, XQUERY, FO, XSD, RNG, RNC,NRL, DTD, Schematron, WSDL and CSS documents. It offers a powerful and intelligent code insight that guides the user to write valid XML content. The code insight can be driven by a DTD, an XML Schema, an RNG or by the structure of a partial edited document. Features SVN Client and native XML Databases support.

This is a free tutorial book for XSL-FO beginners. It is a collection of notes and sample codes written by the author while he was learning XSL-FO and XHTML. Topics include CSS, HTML, PDF, XHTML, XSL-FO, XSLT Key sections: XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) - XSL-FO Concepts - File Structure and Declaration Statements - Building Block Areas - Lists and Tables - References and Links - eXtensible Hyper-Text Markup Language (XHTML) - XHTML Publication - From Web to PDF.

RenderX makes a production-quality engine that converts XSL:FO into PDF or PostScript files. This engine can be used in place of the Apache FOP engine to edit, troubleshoot, transform and preview any XML to PDF transformation directly from within the Stylus Studio XML IDE. This article explains how to configure the two products to interoperate.

An overview of Stylus Studio's support for XSL:FO editing, single-click XSL:FO stylesheet processing, integration with Apache FOP — for use in advanced report generation, document conversion and document management applications.

XSL-FO is a XML standard. Documents of this format are transformed by renderers into other formats like PDF, RTF, HTML, Postscript, PCL or other. There is a growing set of open source projects and vendors providing XSL-FO formatting and transforming tools. See resource-section for some useful links.

Find out how you can leverage the power of XSL-FO, and discover why you may want to use XSL-FO with XSLT.

This article shows you an easy way to generate PDF files dynamically for display in a browser by using an XSL vocabulary called XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects).

This article will give you enough information to use the major features of XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) in conjunction with Apache's FOP API for rendering documents in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF).

"Practical Formatting Using XSLFO” provides hands-on exposure to the Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects (XSLFO) W3C Recommendation used for rendering XML information to print and other paginated media.

A list of XSL-FO Elements References.

We have deeply reworked our XSL FO stylesheet for XMLSpec 2.0. In its current version, it provides a reasonably nice coverage of five W3C papers: XML Spec, XML Namespaces, XSLT, XPath, and - finally - XSL FO Draft (the last one). At Renderex you can find the stylesheet with more comments, plus XSL FO versions of each of the above documents, and PDFs generated by our renderer.

This article shows you an easy way to generate PDF files dynamically for display in a browser by using an XSL vocabulary called XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects).