XF Rendering Server 2010
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XSL-FO Examples

Most of the samples below are included with XF Rendering Server, XF Designer and XF Desktop Edition.

You will find in these samples:

• Standard XSLFO elements such as fo:table and fo:instream-foreign-object
• SVG graphics
• CSS 3.0 attributes (used for rounded borders).
• Ecrion specific extensions for Charts, Barcodes and Maps.

XML to PDF
Invoice.xml | Invoice.xfd Invoice.pdf	Live XSL-FO Invoice Sample
XSLFO
Barcodes.fo | Barcodes.pdf	Basic Fonts.fo | Basic Fonts.pdf	Chart.fo | Chart.pdf	Google Maps.fo | Google Maps.pdf
Tables.fo | Tables.pdf	Watermark.fo | Watermark.pdf	Graphics.fo | Graphics.pdf	SVG Graphics.fo | SVG Graphics.pdf
Borders.fo | Borders.pdf	PDF Form.fo | PDF Form.pdf	FlashSample.fo | FlashSample.pdf	Unicode.fo | Unicode.pdf

Other XSL-FO Resources

Here are several resources if you want to start digging in XSL-FO:

On www.ecrion.com:

• XF Designer - XSL-FO Designer/Editor - We tried to make editing the XSL-FO documents very easy and hide the complexity behind a Word-like interface. Our users tell us that we have succeeded, so give it a try!
• XSL-FO 1.1 Conformance Matrix - Both the server and the designer use the same Ecrion XSL-FO formatting engine behind the scenes. Our engine is compliant with the version 1.1 of the XSL-FO standard.
• XSL-FO Tutorial - The latest version of our XSL-FO tutorial is now part of the help that comes with the server.
• XSL-FO Tutorial (PDF) - XSL-FO Tutorial in PDF format.
• XSL-FO Tutorial (PDF, French version) - XSL-FO Tutorial in PDF format.

Elsewhere on the web:

• XSLFO Specifications Version 1.1 on W3C.org
• Upcoming XSL-FO 2.0 specifications
• HTML to XSLFO conversion guide (not because HTML to FO conversion is the way to go, but because developers are more familiar to HTML that to XSLFO).
• XSL-FO Tutorial from XML 1.1 Bible, by Elliotte Rusty Harold. © 2004 by Wiley Publishing, Inc.
• Learn XSL-FO on W3CSchools.com
• XSL and XSL-FO FAQ

Do you have other interesting links related to XSL-FO? Please contact support and we'll be happy to update this page with relevant resources.