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<p>You can download the latest release version from the <jump
href="http://xml.apache.org/dist/fop/">distribution directory</jump>. </p>
<p>The file contains also the documentation (including some example fo files) and the source. </p>
+ <p>If you want to work with the latest and nicest code, you can use the cvs version. See the section
+ on AnonCVS in the <jump href="http://xml.apache.org/cvs.html">xml.apache.org documentation</jump> for details.
+ Sometimes people have difficulties to access the cvs server; in this case you can download
+ a snapshot from the cvs files <jump href="http://xml.apache.org/from-cvs/xml-fop/">here</jump>.
+ In both cases you have to build Fop yourself - see <jump href="compiling.html">Compiling Fop</jump> for details.
+ </p>
<p>To run FOP from the command line, see <jump href="running.html">Running FOP</jump>. If you are
interested in embedding FOP in a Java application of your own, see
<jump href="embedding.html">Embedding FOP</jump>.
to <jump href="mailto:fop-dev-subscribe@xml.apache.org">fop-dev-subscribe@xml.apache.org</jump></p>
<p>Sending bug reports and feature requests to the list is a welcome and important contribution to
developing Fop. </p>
- <p>Read also the <jump href="http://xml-archive.webweaving.org/xml-archive-fop/">archive</jump>
+ <p>Read also the <jump href="http://archive.covalent.net/">archive</jump>
of the discussion list fop-dev to get an idea of the issues being discussed. </p>
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like XT or Xalan) or can be passed in memory as a DOM Document or (in
the case of XT) SAX events.
</p>
+ <p>The latest version of Fop is 0.14 and it supports partially the xsl:fo working draft
+ from March 2000. You can <jump href="download.html">download</jump>
+ Fop including a precompiled version the source code and many example files to
+ get you started. Pointers to introductions into xsl:fo can be found in the
+ section <jump href="specs.html">specifications</jump>.
+ </p>
<p>FOP is part of Apache's XML project. The homepage of FOP is
<jump href="http://xml.apache.org/fop">http://xml.apache.org/fop</jump>. A list
- of the committers to this project and the tasks they are working on can be found
+ of known bugs, the committers to this project and the tasks they are working on can be found
in the file <jump href="http://xml.apache.org/websrc/cvsweb.cgi/xml-fop/">Status</jump>
</p>
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The other required files can be found at <jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-DOM-Level-2-20000510/java-binding.html">W3C DOM Java binding</jump>.
</p>
<p>d) Optional: Fop supports the jimi library for image processing, if it is in your classpath
- when you build Fop.
+ when you build Fop. You can find it at <jump href="http://java.sun.com/products/jimi/">java.sun.com</jump>
</p>
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<ul>
<li><jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl/">Latest XSL-FO Working Draft (27 March 2000)</jump></li>
<li><jump href="http://www.renderx.com/Tests/validator/fo2000.dtd.html">A dtd for the XSL-FO Working Draft (27 March 2000) provided by N. Grigoriev from RenderX</jump></li>
<li><jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">Namespaces in XML Recommendation</jump></li>
<li><jump href="http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs/index.html">Java JDK 1.1 Documentation</jump></li>
</ul>
+ </s2>
+ <s2 title="Tutorials">
+ <ul>
+ <li><jump href="http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible/updates/15.html">Elliotte Rusty Harold: Chapter 15 on xsl:fo from his excellent xml book</jump></li>
+ </ul>
+ </s2>
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