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XSL-FO in overview

Ken Holman (Crane Softwrights)
XML Training Salon G
Presentation: XSL-FO in overview Presentation 1 [PDF]

“XSL-FO in overview” is a lecture-style tutorial introducing the concepts of the Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) 1.0 and XSL-FO 1.1 W3C Recommendations, used for expressing the paginated (e.g. printed) output of XML structured information.

Topics introduced include

  • Module 1: Introducing XSL-FO (in brief)
  • Module 2: The context of XSL-FO (in brief)
  • Module 3: Basic concepts of XSL-FO
  • Module 4: Area and page basics
  • Module 5: Body contents
  • Module 6: Tables
  • Module 7: Floats, footnotes and containers
  • Module 8: Pagination
  • Module 9: Bookmark and indexing objects
  • Module 10: Keeps and breaks
  • Module 11: Supplemental objects
  • Module 12: Interactive objects
  • Module 13: Where XSL-FO falls short
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Ken Holman

Crane Softwrights

http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/links/bio-idea.htm

Mr. G. Ken Holman is the Chief Technology Officer for Crane Softwrights Ltd., a Canadian corporation offering XSL, XSLT and XSL-FO language training, Python and OmniMark programming, and general SGML and XML related computer systems analysis services regarding text markup technologies to international customers. Mr. Holman is the current international secretary of the ISO subcommittee responsible for the SGML family of standards, a co-editor of the Universal Business Language (UBL) 2.0 specification, an invited expert to the W3C and member of the W3C Working Group that developed XML from SGML, the former Canadian chair of the ISO subcommittee, the founding chair of the OASIS XML Conformance Technical Committee, the founding chair of the OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Technical Committee, the founding and current chair of the OASIS Code List Representation Technical Committee, the current chair of the OASIS UBL Human Interface Subcommittee and co-chair of the OASIS UBL Small Business Subset subcommittee, a technical lead on UBL code list and customization task groups, the author of electronically-published and print-published books on XML-related technologies, and has often been a speaker at related conferences. Prior to establishing Crane, Mr. Holman spent over 13 years in a software development and consulting services company working in the NAPLPS and the SGML industries.

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