G. Ken Holman is the chief technology officer of Crane Softwrights Ltd., current Canadian chair of the ISO subcommittee responsible for the SGML family of standards, an invited expert to the W3C, and member of the W3C Working Group that developed XML from SGML. Ken is the author of electronically published and print-published books on XML-related technologies, and a frequent conference speaker.
The XSL-FO 1.0 Recommendation is now more than a year old, and it's exciting
to see a number of commercial implementations and open-source or free
projects available for the Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects.
One such implementation is at Crane Softwrights Ltd., where XSL-FO is used
extensively on a daily basis for quality print-oriented results.
Formatting objects express the semantics of paginated formatting intent. To
get professional-quality print results from XML, you transform XML instances
into instances of the XML vocabulary that has been associated with the
formatting semantics. Much as you'd transform your XML instances into
instances of HTML for display in Web browsers, XSL-FO formatting engines
interpret your intent expressed in instances of the XSL-FO XML vocabulary to
produce a paginated result.
Pagination differs from the infinite-leng... (more)
G. Ken Holman is the chief technology officer of Crane Softwrights Ltd., current Canadian chair of the ISO subcommittee responsible for the SGML family of standards, an invited expert to the W3C, and member of the W3C Working Group that developed XML from SGML. Ken is the author of electronically published and print-published books on XML-related technologies, and a frequent conference speaker.
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