Definitive XSL-FO

The authoritative guide to developing production-quality output from XML data using XSL-Formatting Objects. Covers every formatting object in the XSL-FO Recommendation. G. Ken Holman is member of the W3C Working Group that developed XML and a member of its XSLT/XPath subcommittee. Part of The Definitive XML Series , Charles F. Goldfarb Series Editor. Definitive XSL-FO delivers concise, authoritative coverage of every key facet of the new W3C recommendation, XSL-FO. XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects) is the critical enabling technology that allows enterprise applications to produce production-quality output from large XML data stores. There is a large constituency of users of information who prefer the printed format of physical pages over the screen format of a web document. As more web services are deployed and more companies bring more of their information into XML structures, the need for the printed form will grow. Developers have long been used to producing HTML reports and screen-based results, without considering paginating their information into a form (such as a PDF file) suitable for printing. G. Ken Holman is the Chief Technology Officer for Crane Softwrights Ltd., current Canadian chair of the ISO subcommittee responsible for the SGML family of standards, an invited expert to the W3C and member of the W3C Working Group that developed XML from SGML, the former chair of the OASIS XML Conformance Technical Subcommittee, the former chair of the OASIS XSLT Conformance Technical Subcommittee, the author of electronically-published and print-published books on XML-related technologies, and a frequent conference speaker. He is the author of Definitive XSLT and Xpath (0-13-065196-6, PH PTR, 2001).

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G. KEN HOLMAN is Chief Technology Officer for Crane Softwrights Ltd. and Canadian chair of the ISO SGML standards group. Ken is an invited expert to the W3C®, a member of the W3C Working Group that developed XML, and founder of the OASIS Technical Committees for XML and XSLT conformance. His many books on XML technologies include Definitive XSLT and XPath. About the Series Editor CHARLES F. GOLDFARB is the father of XML technology. He invented SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language on which both XML and HTML are based. You can find him on the Web at www.xmlbooks.com.

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“Holman is my main source of information on XSL-FO &#8230 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 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. 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 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&#8482

Zusammenfassung
This book is a tutorial on how to use the W3C's new XSL-F0 technology for publication quality enterprise publishing.

Inhalt

Foreword.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1. Introducing XSL-FO.

2. XSL-FO in context.

The XML Family of Recommendations. Examples.

3. Basic Concepts.

Formatting and Rendering. Processing Model. Formatting Object XML Vocabulary.

4. Areas and Pages.

Area Model Details. Block and Inline Basics. Container Basics. Page Definition and Sequencing.

5. Generic Body Constructs.

Lists. Graphics and Foreign Objects. Links. Leaders.

6. Tables.

Tabular Structure. Tabular Appearance.

7. Static Content and Page Geometry Ssequencing.

Page Regions, Headers, and Footers. Content Definition 199. Page Sequence Master Interleave (PSMI). Page Geometry Sequencing.

8. Floats and Footnotes.

Floats. Footnotes.

9. Breaks, Borders, and Backgrounds.

Breaks. Widows and Orphans. Keeps. Spacing, Conditionality, and Precedence. Borders. Backgrounds.

10. Interactive Objects.

Reflecting Formatting Object State by Appearance. Interactively Changing the Effective Flow.

11. Supplemental Objects.

Specialty Formatting Objects. The Importance of Bidirectional Text. The Mechanics of Mixing Text of Different Writing Directions. The Bidirectional Support Challenge. The Bidi-Override Object. The Character Object. The Color-Profile Object. The Declarations Object.

Appendix A. Using XSLT with XSL-FO.

XSLT Language Features Supporting XSL-FO. XSL-FO Language Features Similar to XSLT and Xpath.

Appendix B. Expressions.

Production Summary. XSL-FO Functions.

Appendix C. Objects.

Objects Summarized by Name. Objects Summarized by Type.

Appendix D. Properties.

Common Properties. Data Types. Inheritance and Shorthands. Property Summary.

Appendix E. Choosing XSL-FO Products.

Index. <B