Definitive XSL-FO (Charles F. Goldfarb Definitive XML Series) [ペーパーバック]

In Definitive XSL-FO, one of the world’s leading XML experts shows how XSL-FO revolutionizes the publishing of graphic-arts quality print and electronic documents. The book offers concise, authoritative guidance for using every formatting object in the W3C XSL-FO recommendation. Coverage includes objectives, semantics, vocabulary, key concepts, practical techniques, examples, and much more.

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 worlds 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-FOs 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

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 W3C, 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.

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 W3C, 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.