The definitive guide to state-of-the-art XML publishing with XSL-FO!

XSL-FO (XSL-Formatting Objects) enables enterprise applications to publish graphic-arts quality printed and electronic documents from any XML data store, no matter how large or complex. In Definitive XSL-FO, one of the world's leading XML experts shows how XSL-FO is revolutionizing document publishing. The book offers concise, authoritative, example-rich guidance on using the entire XSL-FO specification:

• XSL-FO's objectives, semantics, and vocabulary
• Key concepts, including layout-based versus content-based formatting, and formatting versus rendering
• Area and page fundamentals: area models, block and inline basics, containers, page definition, and sequencing
• Generic body constructs and tables
• Static content and page geometry sequencing
• Footnotes, floats, breaks, keeps, spacing, borders, and backgrounds
• Interactive objects for dynamic displays
• Supplemental publishing objects, including bidirectional Unicode scripts
• Using XSLT with XSL-FO

Includes powerful quick reference tables for XSL-FO expressions, objects, and properties

Contents

• Introducing XSL-FO
• XSL-FO in context
• Basic Concepts
• Areas and Pages
• Generic Body Constructs
• Tables
• Static Content and Page Geometry Sequencing
• Floats and Footnotes
• Breaks, Borders, and Backgrounds
• Interactive Objects
• Supplemental Objects