XSL-FO Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples

∟RenderX XEP as an XSL-FO Tool

This chapter provides tutorial notes and example codes on RenderX XEP. Topics include introduction of RenderX XEP; downloading and installing XEP 4.24 Free Personal edition; processing example XSL-FO document, borders.fo.

What Is XEP?

Downloading and Installing XEP

RenderX XEP Example - Borders.fo

Takeaways:

• RenderX XEP is a nice tool to process XSL files, including XSL transformations and XSL formatting objects.
• RenderX offers Free Personal edition for anyone wants to try XEP.
• XEP supports a simple command "xep -fo aaa.fo -pdf bbb.pdf" to generate PDF output from XSL-FO documents.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of XSL-FO

 Apache™ FOP (Formatting Objects Processor)

►RenderX XEP as an XSL-FO Tool

 Introduction of Area Model

 XSL-FO Document Basics and Examples

 Page Layout Masters

 Block-Level Formatting Objects

 Inline-Level Formatting Objects

 Including Graphics in XSL-FO document

 Table of Rows and Columns

 List, Item, Label, and Body

 Floating Blocks - "float" and "footnote"

 Hyperlinks, Table of Contents and Indexes

 Headers and Footers using "static-content"

 Font Attributes and Font Families

 Apache FOP Font Configurations

 RenderX XEP Font Configurations

 Converting HTML to PDF

 References

 Full Version in PDF/ePUB

RenderX XEP as an XSL-FO Tool - Updated in 2023, by Herong Yang