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-
-
-<s1 title="Frequently Asked Questions">
- <s2 title="Introduction">
+<!DOCTYPE faqs SYSTEM "../dtd/faq-v10.dtd">
+<faqs title="Frequently Asked Questions">
+<faq>
+ <question>About the FAQ</question>
+ <answer>
<p>
Here we have some answers to common questions about FOP. This only covers
general information about getting started with FOP and pointers to more
The site uses Jyve to provide an interactive FAQ:
<jump href="http://www.owal.co.uk:8090/asf/servlet/asf/screen/DisplayTopics/action/SetAll/project_id/18/faq_id/276">http://www.OWAL.co.uk:8090/</jump>
</p>
- </s2>
- <s2 title="Questions">
- <ul>
- <li><jump href="#q1">What is FOP?</jump></li>
- <li><jump href="#q2">How does FOP interact with other Apache Projects?</jump></li>
- <li><jump href="#q3">What is XSL (FO)?</jump></li>
- <li><jump href="#q4">What can I do with FOP?</jump></li>
- <li><jump href="#q5">How can I contribute?</jump></li>
- <li><jump href="#q6">How do I author XSL documents?</jump></li>
- <li><jump href="#q7">How can I see a demo?</jump></li>
- </ul>
- </s2>
- <s2 title="Answers">
- <s3 title="What is FOP">
-<anchor name="q1"></anchor>
+ </answer>
+</faq>
+<faq>
+ <question>What is FOP?</question>
+ <answer>
<p>
FOP is a print formatter for XSL formatting objects.
</p>
into a page layout. The main target is PDF but other rendering targets
are supported, such as AWT, PCL, text and direct printing.
</p>
- </s3>
- <s3 title="How does FOP interact with other Apache Projects?">
-<anchor name="q2"></anchor>
+ </answer>
+</faq>
+<faq>
+ <question>How does FOP interact with other Apache Projects?</question>
+ <answer>
<p>
FOP is distributed with <jump href="http://xml.apache.org/cocoon">Cocoon</jump> as a PDF serializer for XSL (FO) documents.
</p>
<jump href="http://xml.apache.org/batik">Batik</jump> can be used with FOP to <jump href="http://xml.apache.org/batik/svgrasterizer.html">transcode an SVG image</jump> into a PDF document.
The mime type for PDF is "application/pdf".
</p>
- </s3>
- <s3 title="What is XSL (FO)">
-<anchor name="q3"></anchor>
+ </answer>
+</faq>
+
+<faq>
+ <question>What is XSL (FO)?</question>
+ <answer>
<p>
+XSL is an XML format that is used to specify a pagination and other
+styling for page layout output. XSL can be used in conjunction with
+XSLT to convert from any XML format into a paginated layout ready for
+printing or displaying.
</p>
- </s3>
- <s3 title="What can I do with FOP">
-<anchor name="q4"></anchor>
<p>
+XSL defines a set of formatting objects in xml that describes the
+way pages are set up. The contents of the pages are filled from
+flows which. There can be static flows that appear on every page
+and the main flow which fills the body of the page.
</p>
- </s3>
- <s3 title="How can I contribute">
-<anchor name="q5"></anchor>
+ </answer>
+</faq>
+
+<faq>
+ <question>What can I do with FOP?</question>
+ <answer>
<p>
+FOP is an application or library that converts an XSL FO document
+into the paginated output. It is possible to render the output
+to different targets, the main target is PDF. FOP can be run from
+the command line or embedded into your Java application.
</p>
- </s3>
- <s3 title="How do I author XSL documents">
-<anchor name="q6"></anchor>
<p>
+The XSL FO can be delivered to FOP with XML(XSL FO), XML+XSL or
+SAX events.
+ </p>
+ </answer>
+</faq>
+
+<faq>
+ <question>How can I contribute?</question>
+ <answer>
+ <p>
+There is always plenty of things to do.
</p>
- </s3>
- <s3 title="How can I see a demo">
-<anchor name="q7"></anchor>
+ </answer>
+</faq>
+
+<faq>
+ <question>How do I author XSL documents?</question>
+ <answer>
+ <p>
+Often XSL FO is created from XML and XSLT. There are some
+standard XML markups such as Docbook that can be converted
+into XSL FO and other XML formats.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+There are some XSL authoring tools that may help you to
+author XSL FO documents or the XML and XSLT documents.
+ </p>
+ </answer>
+</faq>
+
+<faq>
+ <question>How can I see a demo?</question>
+ <answer>
<p>
There will be a Java Webstart demo sometime in the future.
+This will use the AWT viewer to display FO documents.
</p>
- </s3>
- </s2>
+ </answer>
+</faq>
-</s1>
+</faqs>
<s1 title="FOP Relevant Specifications and Links">
<s2 title="Specifications">
<ul>
- <li><jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-xsl-20001121/">XSL-FO Candidate Recommendation (21 November 2000)</jump></li>
+ <li><jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/">XSL-FO Recommendation (15 October 2001)</jump></li>
<li><jump href="http://www.renderx.com/Tests/validator/fo2000.dtd.html">A dtd for the XSL-FO CR from November provided by N. Grigoriev from RenderX</jump></li>
- <li><jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-SVG-20001102/">Supported SVG Candidate Recommendation (02 November 2000)</jump></li>
+ <li><jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/">Supported SVG Recommendation (04 September 2001)</jump></li>
<li><jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">XML Recommendation</jump></li>
<li><jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt">XSLT Recommendation</jump></li>
<li><jump href="http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/DOCS/pdfspec.pdf">Portable Document Format (PDF) 1.3 Reference Manual </jump></li>
- <li><jump href="http://www.megginson.com/SAX/">Simple API for XML (SAX)</jump></li>
+ <li><jump href="http://sax.sourceforge.net/">Simple API for XML (SAX)</jump></li>
<li><jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1">Document Object Model (DOM)</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>
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