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Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) is an XML application for describing the page layout of an XML document. In other words, it can make the XML document both pretty and readable to nontechnical people. XSL-FO also provides the ability to display the same XML document in different formats for different purposes.

Davisor Chart supports Portable Document Format (PDF) output through the use of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) eXtendable Stylesheet Language Formatted Objects (XSL-FO) and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). The process to produce PDF documents out of XSL-FO data and SVG images is straighforward, but it requires some external software and some initial setup work. The following chapters tell what is needed, and how the process is set up.

A XML based markup language that defines how the embedded information should be formatted for viewing or printing. XSL-FO is very similar to TeX, which was a very popular language 15 years ago for writing well formatted scientific documents.

XPath is a language for addressing parts of an XML document, designed to be used by both XSLT and XPointer. (W3C Recommendation 16 November 1999)

There are three basic font families built into all the tools: Times Roman, Helvetica, and Courier. These correspond to the serif, sans-serif, and monospace generic families, respectively, that FO processors recognize. You can specify these font names or generic names in stylesheet parameters such as body.font.family and they will just work. But what if your print design calls for other fonts, or you just want to try something a little different?

In this article, you'll learn about XSL-FO and an example to convert XML into a PDF document. This article assumes that you have some familiarity with XML and XSLT.

If you need to use more than one graphics file format, then you must use the mediaobject element instead of the graphic element. You could use profiling to select from among several graphic elements, but mediaobject is designed to do it without the need for the profiling step.

As XSL Formatter is a Unicode application, the languages can be formatted as far as there are suitable fonts installed on your PC. XSL Formatter now supports HAT, CJK. Find amazing potential for multilingual publications!

Extensible Markup Language, abbreviated XML, describes a class of data objects called XML documents and partially describes the behavior of computer programs which process them. XML is an application profile or restricted form of SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language [ISO 8879].

This is a power point presentation about the introduction to XSL-FO.

This page will provide answers to the most frequently asked questions regarding XFC and XSL Utility.

This document gives a quick, learn-by-example introduction to XSL Formatting Objects. I don’t discuss subtle details of implementation, but rather provide a series of examples of how to perform routine tasks with XEP — an XSL formatter developed by RenderX, Inc. It is not a manual of XSL FO in general, and some examples given here may not work in other XSL FO formatters, or give different results.

This section contains several examples about XML, DTD, Schema, XSL, XSF-FO etc.

FOP uses XSL-FO as input. It is the responsibility of the user to make sure that the XSL-FO submitted to FOP is correct. The tutorial items presented here are not comprehensive, but are of the FAQ variety. Another good FAQ is Dave Pawson's XSL FAQ.

For the most part this book is going to focus on XML documents used as input to and output from various kinds of programs. In many cases it’s entirely possible that the XML documents will be both written and read by software and that no human being ever even looks at the documents.

XSL-FO output goes into blocks. XSL-FO output is normally nested inside <fo:block> elements, nested inside elements, nested inside elements:

This describes a fully unattended batch methodology for producing "back of the book indexes" using XSL-FO 1.0 and a free tool available on the Web. We hope that other free tools can be identified for use in this process, and we will maintain this page with the list as they are found.

Since XSL-FO files are written in XML, all statements are organized into an XML tree structure.

Learn how to generate Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files from XML documents using XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) and a Java Servlet.