XSL-FO Training: Introduction to XSL-FO

Course Number: XML-140
Duration: 2 days
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XSL-FO Training Overview

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

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XSL-FO Training Prerequisites

Prior knowledge of XML and XSLT.

Hands-on/Lecture Ratio

This training class is 70% hands-on, 30% lecture, with the longest lecture segments lasting for 15 minutes. Students "learn by doing," with immediate opportunities to apply the material they learn to real-world problems.

XSL-FO Training Materials

More than 250 pages of comprehensive courseware and a copy of O'Reilly's XSL-FO.

Software Needed on Each Student PC

Editor (One of the following)

Stylus Studio XSL-FO Editor
XMLSpy
<oXygen/> XML Editor
XMLwriter
XMLmind XML Editor
XML Editor of your choice
Plain text editor

FO Processing Engine (One of the following)

XSL-FO Training Objectives

After this training, attendees shall be able to:

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

XSL-FO Training Outline

Formatting Objects Basics

The purpose of XSL-FO
How XSL-FO Works
An XSL-FO Example

The Root Element: fo:root
fo:layout-master-set and fo:simple-page-master
Regions
fo:page-sequence
fo:flow and fo:static-content
fo:block

Using XSLT to Create FO

Blocks and Inlines

Static Content

fo:region-before and fo:region-after
fo:static-content

Creating a Multi-page Document
Formatting Blocks

Border
Space and Padding

Formatting Text
Inline Elements
Creating Lists

fo:list-block
fo:list-item
fo:list-item-label
fo:list-item-body

Page Layout

Page Masters
Simple Layout

fo:simple-page-master
fo:region-body
fo:region-before, fo:region-after, fo:region-start, and fo:region-end

Conditional Page Masters
Odd and Even Pages
Blank Pages

break-before and break-after

Creating the Page Layout with XSLT

Links and Graphics

External Links
Graphics
Internal Links

Leaders, Markers and Page Numbers

The Output
Table of Contents
Leaders

Columns, Keeps, and Breaks

Columns
Keeps
Breaks

Tables

Creating Tables

fo:table
fo:table-column
fo:table-header, fo:table-body, fo:table-footer
fo:table-row
fo:table-cell

Tying It All Together

Workshop: Transforming data for output to PDF

Conclusion

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