This section provides an example of formatting an XSL-FO file to a text file with FOP.
Let's format hello.fo into a text file with the following command:
fop -fo hello.fo -txt hello.txt
You should see the following on the screen:
[INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser
[INFO] FOP 0.20.5rc2
[INFO] Using org.apache.xerces.parsers.SAXParser as SAX2 Parser
[INFO] building formatting object tree
[INFO] setting up fonts
[INFO] rendering areas to TEXT
[INFO] [1]
[INFO] Parsing of document complete, stopping renderer
[INFO] writing out TEXT
The output tells us that the xerces SAXParser was used to parse the XSL-FO file,
and one page of output was formatted.
If you open the output file, hello.txt, with any text editor, you should see:
