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XSL-FO: Making XML Look Good in Print (Paperback)

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  • Paperback: 264 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. (19 Aug 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0596003552
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596003555
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 17.9 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 298,320 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"There's a lot to be learnt before you create your first XSL-FO style sheet, and this book is the ideal guide to get you through those first steps - it will also serve as a long-lasting reference for XSL-FO experts." PC Plus, January 2003

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No matter how flexible and convenient digital information has become, we haven't done away with the need to see info rmation in print. Extensible Style Language-Formatting Obj ects, or XSL-FO, is a set of tools developers and Web designers use to describe page printouts of their XML (includi ng XHTML) documents. If you need to produce high quality printed material from your XML documents, then XSL-FO provides the bridge. "XSL-FO" is one of the few books to go beyond a basic introduction to the technology. While many books touch on XSL-FO in their treatment of XSLT, this book offers in-depth coverage of XSL-FO's features and strengths. Author Dave Paws on is well known in the XSLT and XSL-FO communities, and maintains the XSLT FAQ. An online version of this book has helped many developers master this technology. The first part of the book offers an overview of the technology and introduces the XSL-FO vocabulary. The author discusses how to choose among today's implementations, explains how to describe pages, and shows you what is going on in the processor in terms of layout. You'll learn about the basics of formatting and layout as well as readability. The second part focuses on smaller pieces: blocks, inline structures, graphics, color and character level formatting , concluding by showing how to integrate these parts into a coherent whole. XSL-FO also explores organizational aspe cts you'll need to consider-how to design your stylesheets strategically rather than letting them evolve on their own. XSL-FO is more than just a guide to the technology; the book teaches you how to think about the formatting of your documents and guides you through the questions you'll need to ask to ensure that your printed documents meet the same high standards as your computer-generated content. Written for experienced XML developers and Web designers, no other book contains as much useful information on this practical technology.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Lacks visual examples, 16 Aug 2006
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For a book that is about rendering content into a visual form its very poor. Theres plenty of examples in the book - just hardly any which show visual output of the code examples. Therefore when you are trying to render content and searching for examples of how to do it, the book is pretty useless. The author also discards tables by basically saying that there no need for them - when for most of the content I am rendering (contract notes, reports) can't be done without them.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Must do better, 13 Dec 2005
The really annoying thing about this book is that all the information is probably there but it's very well hidden. I found it almost impossible to use as a reference book. Just trying to find if an attribute is applicable to a particular tag and what the options might be for that attribute is a nightmare. None of the reference lists are arranged in any sort of order that I could work out. I've now done some quite complex stuff using this book. So, it has sorted out my problems but it's so frustrating that it could have been much easier.
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