IT / Programming / W3C / XML / XSL-FO
| ID | 2757629 |
|---|---|
| Classroom | 2 days 9:00-16:30 |
| Webinar | 4 days 9:00-12:30 |
| Method | Lecture with examples and exercises. |
| Prequisite | XSLT basics |
| Audience | Programmers, Web developers |
XSL Formatting Objects, or XSL-FO, is a markup language for XML document formatting which is most often used to generate PDFs. XSL-FO is part of XSL (Extensible Stylesheet Language), a set of W3C technologies designed for the transformation and formatting of XML data. The general idea behind XSL-FO's use is that the user writes a document, not in FO, but in an XML language. Then, the user uses an existing XSLT stylesheet or creates one of his/her own which then transforms / converts the XML into XSL-FO. From there, an FO processor finally renders the FO-document in formats like PDF or PostScript and other output formats depending on the capabilities of the renderer. This training provides you with a substantial knowledge of the FO standard and shows you in many hands-on labs how to create an XSL-FO document so that a real-world XML file can be published as a complex book. You will learn how to define page dimensions and page templates, create paragraphs, blocks like tables and lists, insert images, and how to define a table of contents, and links. The last part of the training shows you how to build modular XSL-FO documents applying advanced techniques of XSLT and how to automatize the transformation process using variables, parameters or attribute groups.
Page Masters - Page Sequence Masters - Regions - Complex Pagination - Page Numbers and other Static Content
Font, Color, Text Decoration, and Size - Block Formatting: Padding, Indentation, Positioning, Space
Tables: Simple and Complex Tables, Formatting of Tables using Border, Padding and Positioning - Lists: Simple and Numbered Lists, Complex Lists
Chapters and Sections - Page Breaks - Table of Contents - Running Headers - References and Links
Embedding of Images - Scaling and Positioning of Images
Attribute Groups, Variables and Temporary Trees for Modular Programming - XSLT Techniques for Text Formatting
Marco Skulschus (born in Germany in 1978) studied economics in Wuppertal (Germany) and Paris (France) and wrote his master´s thesis about semantic data modeling in XML, shortly before any of the current Semantic Web standards had been adopted. He started working as lecturer and consultant in 2002.
He works as an IT-consultant and project manager. He developed various XML-based applications with his team in India and is regularly involved in complex import/export scenarios / data integration projects and in XML-based reporting solutions.
He led several research projects for business partners concerning expert systems, ontology-based software, and also online questionnaires. Nearly all of these projects were based on a complex XML-data model or made use of XML-based rule sets.
