XSL-FO—Formatting Objects
The Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations Recommendation was issued by W3C in November 1999. Currently, W3C is working on an Extensible Stylesheet Language Working Draft, which focuses largely on XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO).
The W3C work on XSL-FO aims to capture all the functionality of Cascading Style Sheets for use with XML documents on the Web but also intends to add many layout facilities to allow use of XML documents not only on the Web but also in print. By separating content from presentation this becomes possible.
When an XSLT processor is applied, with an appropriate XSLT style sheet, to an XML document a transformation of the source document occurs, producing an output or result tree.
That same ...
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