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Description
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
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