hello.fo - Sample XSL-FO document

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∟hello.fo - Sample XSL-FO document

This section provides a sample XSL-FO document, which is an XML document with 'root' element and 'layout-master-set' and 'page-sequence' sub-elements.

Here is is a sample XSL-FO document, hello.fo:

<?xml version="1.1" encoding="utf-8"?>
<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
 <fo:layout-master-set>
  <fo:simple-page-master master-name="my_page" margin="0.5in">
   <fo:region-body/>
  </fo:simple-page-master>
 </fo:layout-master-set>
 <fo:page-sequence master-reference="my_page">
  <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
   <fo:block>Hello world!</fo:block>
  </fo:flow>
 </fo:page-sequence>
</fo:root>

Some notes on the sample XSL-FO document:

XSL-FO document is an XML with "root" as the root element.
"layout-master-set" element is a container of page layouts.
"simple-page-master" element (or statement) specifies a new page layout.
"page-sequence" element (or statement) specifies a sequences of output pages using a specific page layout with formatting objects.
"flow" element (or statement) specifies a groups of formatting objects for specific area of the page layout.
"block" element (or statement) specifies a block formatting object.
Prefix "fo:" is associated with the XSL name space: "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format".