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Xsl-Fo: Making XML Look Good in Print Dave Pawson
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated

XSL - Dynamically enter blank lines in XHTML. might look old-fashioned, but it would do the job much better than all that tag tower. There are many, many more flags that you can set during this transformation stage to take care of errors later on. /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/fo/docbook.xsl \. Other than that I could only imagine to giving divs the height you want for a quick trial. There are parts that seem superfluous, however they are in fact mandatory (e.g. Although XSL-FO would probably be the best for print… maybe you can experiment a bit with the print-formatting options in CSS. Don't worry if you see warnings and errors, you should end up with a good document.fo file. XSL-FO - a language for formatting XML documents You can also rearrange and sort elements, perform tests and make decisions about which elements to hide and display, and a lot more. Companies like RenderX and Ecrion have very good GUI based tools for designing your printed pieces that can then ingest this datastream and create the necessary XSL:FO datastream that then can be rendered to PDF, You have to figure out how to use the resulting XML file in conjunction with one of the XSL:FO formatting tools. This is one consideration, but beyond functionality, execution method may be a more relevant first step in making a selection. First look at XSL-FO: Here is a sample XSL-FO file. Reply I'll look into giving a DIV a set height. The XSL Formatting Objects (FO) document is input to a formatter, a composition tool that renders marks on paper, typically these days in the form of a PDF file. Producing quality printed output is devilishly hard. In this article I will make use of Apache FOP, which is part of Apache XML Graphics Project. If you want to transform XML from one format to another, and especially if either the input or output XML is complicated or the transformation itself is difficult or awkward to express, then XSL may be a good choice. --stringparam fop1.extensions 1 \.