XSLT - XSL-FO / Generating PDF Documents
Course Overview
| ID | 2301004 |
| Duration | 2.0 days |
| Methods | Lecture with examples and exercises. |
| Prerequisites | XSLT basics |
| Target group | Reporting Specialists, XML Developers |
| Vorgängerkurs | 2301001 |
Overview
XSL Formatting Objects, or XSL-FO, is a markup language for XML document formatting which is most often used to generate PDFs. XSL-FO is part of XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language), a set of W3C technologies designed for the transformation and formatting of XML data. The general idea behind XSL-FO's use is that the user writes a document, not in FO, but in an XML language. Then, the user uses an existing XSLT stylesheet or creates one of his/her own which then transforms / converts the XML into XSL-FO. From there, an FO processor finally renders the FO-document in formats like PDF or PostScript and other output formats depending on the capabilities of the renderer. This training provides you with a substantial knowledge of the FO standard and shows you in many hands-on labs how to create an XSL-FO document so that a real-world XML file can be published as a complex book. You will learn how to define page dimensions and page templates, create paragraphs, blocks like tables and lists, insert images, and how to define a table of contents, and links. The last part of the training shows you how to build modular XSL-FO documents applying advanced techniques of XSLT and how to automatize the transformation process using variables, parameters or attribute groups.
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Description
Learn how to use XSLT and FO (Formatting Objects) to create PDF files from XML documents, format them sophisticatedly, and work modularly.
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Content
Page Templates and their Properties
Page Masters - Page Sequence Masters - Regions - Complex Pagination - Page Numbers and other Static Content
Text-/Block Formatting
Font, Color, Text Decoration, and Size - Block Formatting: Padding, Indentation, Positioning, Space
Formatting Objects for Tables and Lists
Tables: Simple and Complex Tables, Formatting of Tables using Border, Padding and Positioning - Lists: Simple and Numbered Lists, Complex Lists
Book Design
Chapters and Sections - Page Breaks - Table of Contents - Running Headers - References and Links
Graphics
Embedding of Images - Scaling and Positioning of Images
Complex Transformations and Modularization
Attribute Groups, Variables and Temporary Trees for Modular Programming - XSLT Techniques for Text Formatting
Instructor
Marco Skulschus studied economics in Wuppertal (Germany) and Paris (France) and wrote his master´s thesis about semantic data modeling in XML, shortly before any of the current Semantic Web standards had been adopted. He started working as lecturer and consultant in 2002.
Publications
- XML: Standards und Technologien (Comelio Medien )
978-3-939701-21-7 - XSLT, XPath und XQuery (Comelio Medien )
978-3-939701-18-7 - XSL-FO (Comelio Medien )
978-3-939701-17-0 - XML Schema (Comelio Medien )
978-3-939701-22-4 - MS SQL Server 2012 – XML-Integration mit T-SQL (Comelio Medien )
978-3-939701-83-5 - Oracle, PL/SQL und XML (Comelio Medien )
978-3-939701-49-1