Suresh Selvaraj

This article will give you enough information to use the major features of XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) in conjunction with Apache's FOP API for rendering documents in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). The W3C's specification for Extensible Stylesheet Language comes in two parts: XSLT: A language for transforming XML documents XSL-FO: An XML vocabulary for specifying formatting semantics FOP (Formatting Objects Processor), which is part of Apache's XML project, is the world's first print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects. It's a Java application that reads an XSL-FO file and renders the output in PDF format. Other formats supported are XML, SVG, PS, PCL, Print, AWT, MIF, and TXT. To dig deeper, you may want to visit http://xml.apache.org/fop. This tutor... (more)