Document Top Level Structure Rules

This section describes XSL-FO document top level structure rules. Root element must be 'root'. 'layout-master-set' is required to define page layouts. 'page-sequences' or 'page-sequences-wrapper' is required to define page contents.

If you want to write an XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects) document to define formatting objects for visual presentation, you need to follow the following XSL-FO document structure rules.

1. XSL-FO document must be valid XML document with "http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" as the namespace.

2. The root element must be "root" acting as the XSL-FO formatting objects container.

3. Sub elements of the "root" element are:

Here is an outline of an XSL-FO document structure:

<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
 <fo:layout-master-set>
  ... Required element to define page layouts
 </fo:layout-master-set>

 <fo:declarations>
  ... Optional element to hold global declarations
 </fo:layout-master-set>

 <fo:bookmark-tree>
  ... Optional element to hold bookmarks
 </fo:layout-master-set>
 
 <fo:page-sequence>
  ... Presentation objects to be formatted on a sequence of pages
 </fo:page-sequence>
 <fo:page-sequence-wrapper>
  ... Container of page-sequence and/or page-sequence-wrapper
 </fo:page-sequence-wrapper>
  ... Required at least one page-sequence or page-sequence-wrapper

</fo:root>

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Introduction of XSL-FO

 Apache™ FOP (Formatting Objects Processor)

 RenderX XEP as an XSL-FO Tool

 Introduction of Area Model

XSL-FO Document Basics and Examples

Document Top Level Structure Rules

 Example - hello.fo

 Example - Page-Break-with-Header.fo

 Example - Cover-Page-and-Two-Columns.fo

 Page Layout Masters

 Block-Level Formatting Objects

 Inline-Level Formatting Objects

 Including Graphics in XSL-FO document

 Table of Rows and Columns

 List, Item, Label, and Body

 Floating Blocks - "float" and "footnote"

 Hyperlinks, Table of Contents and Indexes

 Headers and Footers using "static-content"

 Font Attributes and Font Families

 Apache FOP Font Configurations

 RenderX XEP Font Configurations

 Converting HTML to PDF

 References

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