"Definitive XSL-FO"

eBook Name: Definitive XSL-FO
eBook Type: XML

XML, XQuery, XHTML

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 worldกฏs 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-FOกฏs 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