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Introduction to XSL-FO (2 days)

This XSL class is delivered for private groups onsite at your offices or a location of your choice. It can also be delivered via the Internet for geographically distributed staff.

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Introduction to XSL-FO Overview

Introduction to XSL-FO teaches students how transform XML documents with XSL to create PDFs.

Introduction to XSL-FO Course Goals

  • Learn how the Formatting Objects (FO) language works
  • Learn to auto-generate FO documents from XML with XSLT
  • Learn to use a Formatting Objects Engine to generate PDF documents from XML

Introduction to XSL-FO Course Prerequisites

Experience in the following areas is required:

  • XML
  • XSLT

Experience in the following areas would be beneficial.

  • HTML

Introduction to XSL-FO Course Outline

  1. Formatting Objects Basics
    1. The purpose of XSL-FO
    2. How XSL-FO Works
    3. An XSL-FO Example
      1. The Root Element: fo:root
      2. fo:layout-master-set and fo:simple-page-master
      3. Regions
      4. fo:page-sequence
      5. fo:flow and fo:static-content
      6. fo:block
    4. Using XSLT to Create FO
  2. Blocks and Inlines
    1. Static Content
      1. fo:region-before and fo:region-after
      2. fo:static-content
    2. Creating a Multi-page Document
    3. Formatting Blocks
      1. Border
      2. Space and Padding
    4. Formatting Text
    5. Inline Elements
    6. Creating Lists
      1. fo:list-block
      2. fo:list-item
      3. fo:list-item-label
      4. fo:list-item-body
  3. Page Layout
    1. Page Masters
    2. Simple Layout
      1. fo:simple-page-master
      2. fo:region-body
      3. fo:region-before, fo:region-after, fo:region-start, and fo:region-end
    3. Conditional Page Masters
    4. Odd and Even Pages
    5. Blank Pages
      1. break-before and break-after
    6. Creating the Page Layout with XSLT
  4. Links and Graphics
    1. External Links
    2. Graphics
    3. Internal Links
  5. Leaders, Markers and Page Numbers
    1. The Output
    2. Table of Contents
    3. Leaders
  6. Columns, Keeps, and Breaks
    1. Columns
    2. Keeps
    3. Breaks
  7. Tables
    1. Creating Tables
      1. fo:table
      2. fo:table-column
      3. fo:table-header, fo:table-body, fo:table-footer
      4. fo:table-row
      5. fo:table-cell
  8. Tying It All Together
    1. Workshop: Transforming data for output to PDF

Introduction to XSL-FO Course Materials

In addition to a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the programming examples, each student will also receive a one-year subscription to Webucator's online reference library, which contains hundreds of the most current electronic technology books - a $149.95 per student value.

Introduction to XSL-FO Technical Requirements

  1. Operating System Options
    • Windows Vista
    • Windows XP with Service Pack 2
  2. Editor Options
  3. FOP 0.94
  4. Adobe Acrobat Reader
  5. Browser Options

Class Files for Introduction to XSL-FO

  1. Download the class files.
  2. After downloading the files, click here for further instructions.

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