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@@ -2,21 +2,16 @@ FOP readme What is FOP? FOP is the world's first print formatter driven by XSL formatting - objects. It is a Java 1.1 application that reads a formatting object - tree and then turns it into a PDF document. The formatting object - tree, can be in the form of an XML document (output by an XSLT engine - like XT or Xalan) or can be passed in memory as a DOM Document or (in - the case of XT) SAX events. + objects. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object + tree conforming to the XSL working draft from 18. October 2000 and + then turns it into a PDF document or allows you to preview it + directly on screen. FOP is part of Apache's XML project. The homepage of FOP is http:/xml.apache.org/fop - HTML-Documentation can be found in the subdirectory /docs. + HTML-Documentation can be found in the subdirectory /xml-fop/docs/html-docs. + A list of bugs, things worked on, and the names of the committers of this project + can be found in the file status in root. - Compilation of Fop is started by executing build. It requires - Xerces-J, Xalan and bsf.jar (comes with Xalan) in your classpath. - Fop builds successfully with Xerces 1.1.2 and Xalan 1.1, earlier versions - may prove problematic, if they don't support the final version of SAX 2. - You can find more details in build.xml or in the documentation under the - heading 'compiling'. |