Using XSL-FO overviews the Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) W3C Recommendatiion, used for the pagination of structured information. The objectives of this course are to understand the role and utility of the Recommendation, to overview basic constructs of the Recommendation, and to design and develop XSL-FO scripts using XSLT and XPath (both of which should be known to the delegate).

Audience

Usinf XSL-FO is aimed at people needing to understand both conceptual and practical aspects of the XSL-FO vocabulary and the available tools.

Prereqs

Attendees must have a knowledge of XML, XSLT and XPath concepts and syntax.

Outcomes

At the end of this 3 day course, attendees will be able to:

• understand the role and scope of XSL-FO in XML document processing
• be aware of every formatting object in XSL-FO
• understand the applicability of different XSL-FO formatting for different layout requirements
• write XSL-FO stylesheets to meet popular layout specifications for blocks, inlines, lists, graphics, links, leaders, tables, headers, footers and footnotes
• be aware of nuances of XSLT processing for XSL-FO
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Agenda

Day 1 Introducing XSL-FO The context of XSL-FO Basic concepts of XSL-FO Exercise: Setup Area and page basics Exercise: Simple pages           Day 2 Body contents Exercise: Lists, graphics, links, leaders Tables Exercise: Tables Pagination Exercise: Headers and footers

Day 3 Floats, footnotes and containers Exercise: Floats and footnotes Keeps and breaks Supplemental objects Interactive objects Using XSLT with XSL-FO XSL-FO Expressions XSL-FO object summary XSL-FO property summary Sample Tool Information