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(R) 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 won't do this job for your data--you need the power of XSL-FO. Join the thousands who have learned how from Ken Holman.""--Charles F. GoldfarbThe 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, including:

• 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"Part of The Charles F. Goldfarb Definitive XML Series(TM)