Definitive XSL-FO

The authoritative guide to developing production-quality output from XML data using XSL-Formatting Objects.

Covers every formatting object in the XSL-FO Recommendation.
G. Ken Holman is member of the W3C Working Group that developed XML and a member of its XSLT/XPath subcommittee.
Part of The Definitive XML Series , Charles F. Goldfarb Series Editor. Definitive XSL-FO delivers concise, authoritative coverage of every key facet of the new W3C recommendation, XSL-FO. XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects) is the critical enabling technology that allows enterprise applications to produce production-quality output from large XML data stores. There is a large constituency of users of information who prefer the printed format of physical pages over the screen format of a web document. As more web services are deployed and more companies bring more of their information into XML structures, the need for the printed form will grow. Developers have long been used to producing HTML reports and screen-based results, without considering paginating their information into a form (such as a PDF file) suitable for printing.
G. Ken Holman is the Chief Technology Officer for Crane Softwrights Ltd., current Canadian chair of the ISO subcommittee responsible for the SGML family of standards, an invited expert to the W3C and member of the W3C Working Group that developed XML from SGML, the former chair of the OASIS XML Conformance Technical Subcommittee, the former chair of the OASIS XSLT Conformance Technical Subcommittee, the author of electronically-published and print-published books on XML-related technologies, and a frequent conference speaker. He is the author of Definitive XSLT and Xpath (0-13-065196-6, PH PTR, 2001).