Xsl-Fo: Making XML Look Good in Print Dave Pawson
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated

There are many, many more flags that you can set during this transformation stage to take care of errors later on. The example they give, though, only worked correctly for me in Opera, not Firefox or IE. So, we could XSL-FO was thought by some to eventually go to the browser, but the biggest push in XSL-FO has typically been for the creation of print documents. We're quickly approaching the point (if we're not already there) at which, for some use cases, the print formatting capabilities of CSS are good enough to justify avoiding the complexity of XSL-FO. With desktop publishing (DTP) tools and help authoring tools (HATs), a moderately competent computer user can control the look and feel of the final output. might look old-fashioned, but it would do the job much better than all that tag tower. Don't worry if you see warnings and errors, you should end up with a good document.fo file. A lot of XML implementers assume that their DTP and of using CSS3 to format XML source? Today we do support the import and use of XML formatted elements today (CSS, XSL, and can output XSL-FO) but we would not claim that to be a standard software function. It is much better in handling and referencing print resources for example. From all I've read, it looks like Opera has done a great job supporting CSS compared to other browsers, and you can do some amazing things with CSS. --stringparam fop1.extensions 1 . /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/fo/docbook.xsl . Flexible layouts See “What is XSL-FO?” for an introduction ( by G. Capabilities of both CSS and XSL-FO point to the need for better control of printing formats and underscore the fact that people do indeed print from the web. The Lazy IA's Guide to Making Sitemaps · 63 Comments A web page with a fixed size of 800×600 pixels may look great online, but will lose its right edge completely when printed. Ken Holman, http://admin.xml.com/pub/a/2002/03/20/xsl-fo.html). Here's a good explanation of the technique. I propose that AFP is already a much better archive and portable document format than PDF/A.