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XML Courses
eXtensible Stylesheet Language with Formatting Objects XSLFO
This course introduces the eXtensible Stylesheet Language, or XSL – also known as XSL with Formatting Objects or XSLFO, to distinguish it clearly from XSLT.
XSLFO provides the ultimate, standards-based solution to producing print and other presentation documents from XML information.
This course teaches XSL with a focus on producing PDFs, using Apache FOP as the formatting engine. Though XSL is quite a dense technology, this one-day course provides a solid grounding in the basic techniques, and students will leave the course ready to tackle simple to moderately complex formatting tasks.
Learning Objectives
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Describe the relationship between XSLT and XSLFO, and their roles in the typical XML-to-print production process.
- Understand the formatting objects model, including the concepts of page, area, block, and line.
- Build page masters and master sets to define common page layouts and area models.
- Build page sequences to produce body, header and footer content.
- Format content using blocks, inlines, lists and tables.
- Take explicit control of document pagination.
- Apply properties to formatting objects and use XSLFO’s property-inheritance model effectively.
- Build tables of contents and embed hyperlinks into documents.
Prerequisites
Students must be fluent in XML and comfortable with XSLT, as the exercises involve a good deal of hand-writing the transformations that produce the XSL formatting documents.
Course Structure
1. Getting Started
Formatting XML
XSLT and XSLFO
Flow of Information
Formatting Objects
Properties
2. Page Masters
Pages and Areas
The Page-Master Model
Regions
Writing Mode and Orientation
The Page-Sequence Model
Flows
Page-Sequence Masters
Properties and the Inheritance Model
3. Formatting
Flows
Blocks and Layout Options
Inlines and Layout Options
Lists
Tables
Controlling Pagination
4. Formatting
Page Numbering
Identifying Content
Page-Number Citations
Links
Tables of Contents
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