XSL-FO Document Basics and Examples

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∟XSL-FO Document Basics and Examples

This chapter provides tutorial notes and example codes on XSL-FO document basics. Topics include basic rules of writing XSL-FO documents; examples of page break, page header, cover page, 2-column pages, etc.

Document Top Level Structure Rules

Example - hello.fo

Example - Page-Break-with-Header.fo

Example - Cover-Page-and-Two-Columns.fo

Takeaways:

XSL-FO document must use "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" namespace.
The root element must be named as "root".
"layout-master-set" sub element is required to declare page layouts.
At least one or more "page-sequences" or "page-sequence-wrapper" sub elements are to specify formatting objects to be presented on pages.