XSL Formatting Objects - Developer's Handbook

XSL Formatting Objects Developer's Handbook is a syntactical reference and a guide for developing practical solutions using the complete XSL toolkit. In exploring the available tools and architectures, the book allows programmers to understand and apply XSL as practitioners. XSL-FO is a complex specification that provides a framework for describing detailed document formatting characteristics. A primary goal of XML is to separate the data from presentation. Unlike HTML documents, XML documents contain no information about how those documnets will appear when displayed.
The XSL-FO specification provides a standardized way to build stylesheets that express document formatting in pure XML notation.

• 1. Introduction.
• 2. From Content to Presentation.
• 3. Tools and Implementations.
• 4. Hello XSL World.
• 5. Color, Fonts, and Rules.
• 6. Block and Inline.
• 7. White Space and Line Handling.
• 8. Page Styling.
• 9. Tables and Alignments.
• 10. Lists and Leaders.
• 11. Keeps, Breaks, and Columns.
• 12. Embedding Diagrams and Images.
• 13. Footnotes and Floats.
• 14. Dynamic Effects.
• 15. Going Global.
• Appendix A. Basics of the XSL Transform.
• Appendix B. A Concise Listing of Formatting Objects.
• Appendix C. A Concise Listing of Properties.