Definitive XSL-FO

Holman is my main source of information on XSL-FO a life saver on projects where we print XML information. W. Eliot Kimber, ISOGEN International Format, paginate, and publish your XML data with full graphic-arts quality! Comprehensive: Covers every formatting object in the W3C XSL-FO Recommendation Proven: Based on fully tested materials used in public seminars and corporate training programs throughout the world Concise: Bullet-point, bite-size presentation helps you master XSL-FO fast! Authoritative: From the founder of the OASIS XML and XSLT conformance committees For centuries, humanity has accessed information with proven page-oriented navigational tools and sophisticated formatting. Just printing Web pages wont do this job for your datayou need the power of XSL-FO. Join the thousands who have learned how from Ken Holman. Charles F. Goldfarb 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 worlds 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, including: XSL-FOs 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 Part of The Charles F. Goldfarb Definitive XML Series