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"""Holman is my main source of information on XSL-FO ...a life saver on projects where we print XML information."" --W. Eliot Kimber, ISOGEN International *Format, paginate, and publish your XML data with full graphic-arts quality! *Comprehensive: Covers every formatting object in the W3C XSL-FO Recommendation *Proven: Based on fully tested materials used in public seminars and corporate training programs throughout the world *Concise: Bullet-point, bite-size presentation helps you master XSL-FO fast! *Authoritative: From the founder of the OASIS XML and XSLT conformance committees ""For centuries, humanity has accessed information with proven page-oriented navigational tools and sophisticated formatting. Just printing Web pages won't do this job for your data - you need the power of XSL-FO. Join the thousands who have learned how from Ken Holman."" --Charles F. Goldfarb The definitive guide to state-of-the-art XML publishing with XSL-FO! XSL-FO (XSL-Formatting Objects) enables enterprise applications to publish graphic-arts quality printed and electronic documents from any XML data store, no matter how large or complex. In Definitive XSL-FO, one of the world's leading XML experts shows how XSL-FO is revolutionizing document publishing. The book offers concise, authoritative, example-rich guidance on using the entire XSL-FO specification, including: *XSL-FO's objectives, semantics, and vocabulary *Key concepts, including layout-based versus content-based formatting, and formatting versus rendering *Area and page fundamentals: area models, block and inline basics, containers, page definition, and sequencing *Generic body constructs and tables *Static content and page geometry sequencing *Footnotes, floats, breaks, keeps, spacing, borders, and backgrounds *Interactive objects for dynamic displays *Supplemental publishing objects, including bidirectional Unicode scripts *Using XSLT with XSL-FO Includes powerful quick reference tables for XSL-FO expressions, objects, and properties Part of The Charles F. Goldfarb Definitive XML Series"

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Author:   G. Ken Holman
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Prentice Hall
Dimensions:   Width: 23.40cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   0.744kg
ISBN:  

9780131403741

ISBN 10:   0131403745
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   01 April 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introducing XSL-FO. 2. XSL-FO in context. The XML Family of Recommendations. Examples. 3. Basic Concepts. Formatting and Rendering. Processing Model. Formatting Object XML Vocabulary. 4. Areas and Pages. Area Model Details. Block and Inline Basics. Container Basics. Page Definition and Sequencing. 5. Generic Body Constructs. Lists. Graphics and Foreign Objects. Links. Leaders. 6. Tables. Tabular Structure. Tabular Appearance. 7. Static Content and Page Geometry Ssequencing. Page Regions, Headers, and Footers. Content Definition 199. Page Sequence Master Interleave (PSMI). Page Geometry Sequencing. 8. Floats and Footnotes. Floats. Footnotes. 9. Breaks, Borders, and Backgrounds. Breaks. Widows and Orphans. Keeps. Spacing, Conditionality, and Precedence. Borders. Backgrounds. 10. Interactive Objects. Reflecting Formatting Object State by Appearance. Interactively Changing the Effective Flow. 11. Supplemental Objects. Specialty Formatting Objects. The Importance of Bidirectional Text. The Mechanics of Mixing Text of Different Writing Directions. The Bidirectional Support Challenge. The Bidi-Override Object. The Character Object. The Color-Profile Object. The Declarations Object. Appendix A. Using XSLT with XSL-FO. XSLT Language Features Supporting XSL-FO. XSL-FO Language Features Similar to XSLT and Xpath. Appendix B. Expressions. Production Summary. XSL-FO Functions. Appendix C. Objects. Objects Summarized by Name. Objects Summarized by Type. Appendix D. Properties. Common Properties. Data Types. Inheritance and Shorthands. Property Summary. Appendix E. Choosing XSL-FO Products. Index.

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G. KEN HOLMAN is Chief Technology Officer for Crane Softwrights Ltd. and Canadian chair of the ISO SGML standards group. Ken is an invited expert to the W3CA (R), a member of the W3C Working Group that developed XML, and founder of the OASIS Technical Committees for XML and XSLT conformance. His many books on XML technologies include Definitive XSLT and XPath. About the Series Editor CHARLES F. GOLDFARB is the father of XML technology. He invented SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language on which both XML and HTML are based. You can find him on the Web at www.xmlbooks.com.

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