XSL-FO

XSL-FO is often used as an output format from XSLT ( covered earlier in this series).

The XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) standard is one of the least known parts of the XSL standard (the more prominent part being XSLT).

Apache FOP: Learn more about this print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and an output independent formatter.

Normally XSL- FO document do not combine formatting information and content like we have done here .

You need to preserve all of the white space it contains, and you need to turn off the automatic word wrapping that the XSL-FO engine does.

You can think of styles. xml as a cross between cascading style sheet (CSS) in an XML format, and XSL-Formatting Objects (XSL-FO).

In this section I take a look at the use of XSL-FO as a specialized XML vocabulary designed to describe document appearance.

XSL-FO Block areas define small block elements (the ones that normally starts with a new line ) like paragraphs , tables and lists .

This is unfortunate because XSL-FO can be very useful for such tasks as producing PDF or Postscript files from XML documents.

For more information about XSLT and XSL-FO techniques, see Resources at the end of this guide.

When a page is full, XSL-FO inserts the next page automatically.

XML technology allows, using XSL-FO, the page layout of published material to be described.

To create printable versions of Web pages, the best approach is to use XSLT and XSL-FO to generate a PDF file.

RenderX sells XED, a commercial tool capable of transforming XSL-FO files into PDF format.

The second part is called XSL-FO or, simply, Formatting Objects (FO).

After years of glacial progress at best, the Apache XML project released FOP 0. 92, an open source XSL-FO to PDF converter.

Unfortunately, neither CSS nor XSL-FO is capable of rendering a complicated mathematical equation or a bar of music.

XSL-FO describes the formatting of XML data for output to screen, paper or other media.

XSL-FO is an XML format that can be used by any user agent to render content to the precise specifications given by the developer.

ZVON offers an XSL FO reference that maps out some relationships of elements but does not go into much depth on each element's semantics.

One of the benefits of XSL-FO is that it automatically places a document's text on as many pages as necessary.

You can do the job with an open-source XSLT processor, the XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) vocabulary, and a formatting-object engine.

XSL-FO documents are XML files with output information. They contain information about the output layout and output contents.

Problems arise because the XSL-FO renderer has a bunch of blocks to work with and it does not know how they are related to each other.

These two templates convert the and elements into the appropriate XSL-FO elements.

You can use XSL-FO and FOP to dynamically generate international PDF documents in Web applications.

Most XSL-FO processors can output PDF documents and quality print, as well as HTML and other formats.

In February 2001 I wrote Portable database reporting using Java and XML, an article that introduces the problem solved here using XSL-FO.

Both CSS and XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) assume that they're styling words in a row: chapters, paragraphs, sentences, and so on.

Generally speaking, XSL-FO controls the layout and the presentation of XML documents.

XSL-FO Block areas can contain other Block areas, but most often they contain Line areas.

XSL-FO documents are XML files with information about the output layout and output content.

XSL-FO needs formatting software to produce output.

Immerse yourself in Formatting Objects by jumping into the W3C's XSL-FO specification, which runs to more than 400 pages.

The HTML align attribute maps to the XSL-FO text-align attribute, but there are two different sets of values.

A decent free product for converting XSL-FO to delivery formats like PDF has been needed for a long time.

In addition, the font-family attribute is also used in the stylesheet to generate PDF from XSL-FO.

Try out XSLFast, a product I found in jCatalog that the suppliers call "the world's first graphical editor for XSL-FO documents. "

The element's size attribute maps to the XSL-FO font-size attribute.

Notice, in figure 1, that the XSL-FO render can generate the output in several formats.

FOP is the world's first print formatter driven by XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO).

XSL-FO Line areas define text lines inside Block areas.

You will learn more about how to combine XSL-FO with XSLT templates in a later chapter in this tutorial.

To handle subscript text, you use the XSL-FO vertical-align property to change the baseline of the text.

If you plan to master FO, you should learn on your own how to use the 56 different objects that comprise XSL-FO.

Now I'll show you how to use XSL-FO to avoid writing a complex style sheet.

I also provide some tips on how to use XSL-FO.

The XSL-FO vocabulary features specialized elements for lists, including ordered lists. Here's a sample HTML list

Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects, XSL-FO

To format this excerpt as a paragraph indented on both sides, use this XSL-FO markup

To render underlined text, use the XSL-FO text-decoration property. Here's a short HTML sample

To handle this element example correctly, you must convert it into the following XSL-FO markup

You need to transform the anchor element into this XSL-FO markup

You can convert it into the following XSL-FO element