javaprepare - XML Certification Tutorial

XSL-FO stands for XSL-Formatting Objects
XSL Formatting Objects, is a powerful and complex XML based technology for the presentation of XML on screen or on paper.
XSL has two parts - XSLT(transformation) and XSL-FO(formatting)
2 unicode formats are the basis of XML characters - UTF-8 and UTF-16.
XSL-FO is a document description language
Within an XSL-FO document, there are two basic parts:
1. The layout for the entire document is contained within a element
2. Content to be displayed is nested within elements, which are linked by their master-name attribute to a particular page layout specified in a element.
has attributes:
page-width, page-height, margin-left, margin-right, margin-top, margin-bottom
Region left after
attributes is:
. This element has following attributes:
Absolute positions of and alter if the direction of a line of writing changes.
Content of the headers and footers is static. Both are represented in elements.
elements for both header and footer precede the element for the main page content.
Within
elements, there can be a variety of XSL-FO elements: