Definitive XSL-FO (Definitive XML) Book

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?Read More