How does XSL-FO work?
XLS:FO is a language that defines the style and the layout of a document. From this point of view it can be compared to PDF, while PDF is page oriented. XSL-FO describes the basic structure and content of a document but is not a page oriented language in the sense that pages are fixed when the document is written. Back to top • What are potential applications for XSLfast? XSLfast has a wide range of applications. Design XSL documents and render the information. Design forms based on XSL-FO and merge these forms together with XML data, or data coming out of data bases. Back to top • Cross media publishing XSLfast allows to define a document and merge the information together with data into different output formats. You will need XSLfast to take the same information to be transferred into PDF, XML. Back to top • What if XSLfast does not have a nice editor for functions/properties which are urgently needed? XSLfast has an editor that allows the user to directly write XSL-FO and XSLT. So w