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Table of Contents1. Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 12. “Hello, world!” ..................................................................................................................................... 13. Formatting: font and text attributes .................................................................................................. 24. Blocks: text alignment, line height ..................................................................................................... 45. Blocks: borders, padding, and background ...................................................................................... 66. Page layout: page sequence masters ................................................................................................ 107. Page layout: areas, flows, static contents ......................................................................................... 118. Lists ..................................................................................................................................................... 149. Tables .................................................................................................................................................. 1510. Graphics ........................................................................................................................................... 1711. Block-containers and reference-orientation .................................................................................. 1812. Writing-mode and bidirectionality ................................................................................................ 1913. Links ................................................................................................................................................. 2114. Leaders ............................................................................................................................................. 2215. Footnotes and floats ......................................................................................................................... 2216. Page numbering and page number references ............................................................................. 2417. Markers ............................................................................................................................................ 2518. Document Info (Extension) ............................................................................................................. 2619. Bookmarks in PDF (Extension) ...................................................................................................... 2720. Indexes (Extension) ......................................................................................................................... 2921. Flow sections (Extension) ................................................................................................................ 3022. Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................ 30i
Introduction1. IntroductionThis document gives a quick, learn-by-example introduction to XSL Formatting Objects. I don’t discusssubtle details of implementation, but rather provide a series of examples of how to perform routine taskswith XEP — an XSL formatter developed by RenderX, Inc. It is not a manual of XSL FO in general, andsome examples given here may not work in other XSL FO formatters, or give different results.This tutorial was conceived as a means to facilitate reading of XSL 1.0 Recommendation of October 15,2001. The normative text is available from W3C site: http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/.You should obtain a copy of XSL 1.0 Recommendation, and refer to it for a complete description of objectsand properties mentioned here.XEP 3.0 also implements several extensions to the XSL 1.0 Recommendation: they add support for usefulfunctionality that cannot be expressed by standard XSL Formatting Objects. The last chapters of thisdocument discuss available extensions in more detail. Needless to say, the extensions are proprietary andincompatible with other XSL formatters; please avoid their use whenever possible.Readers who aren’t XEP users can download an evaluation copy of XEP from http://www.RenderX.com/Download/xep.zip,and run the proposed examples to see how the formatter works. This manualis also available in XML format with an associated XSL FO stylesheet; browsing its source code may alsobe interesting (and instructive).XEP covers more of the spec than was needed for this manual. Please refer to XEP product documentationfor a full list of supported elements and properties.2. “Hello, world!”To make a jump start, let us create the shortest XSL FO document.❶❷❸❹❺Hello, world!❻❶ This is an XML declaration. XSL FO belongs to XML family, so this is obligatory.❷ Root element. The obligatory namespace attribute declares the XSL Formatting Objects namespace.Page 1 of 30
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