FOray: Resources

Contents

• Specifications
  • XSL-FO
  • XSLT
  • XML
  • Java
  • PDF
  • Unicode
  • Other
• Books, Tutorials, Articles
  • XSL-FO
  • XSLT
  • XML
  • Java
  • PDF
  • PostScript
• Mailing Lists
• Related/Useful Products
  • Other XSL-FO Processors
  • FOray add-ons
  • PDF post-processors
  • XSL-FO editors
  • Other products

Specifications

XSL-FO

• XSL-FO Recommendation (15 October 2001)
• Unofficial DTD for the XSL-FO Recommendation provided by N. Grigoriev from RenderX.

XSLT

• XSLT Recommendation

XML

• XML Recommendation
• Simple API for XML (SAX)
• Document Object Model (DOM)
• Namespaces in XML Recommendation

Java

• Java JDK 1.3 Documentation
• Java JDK 1.4 Documentation
• Java JDK 1.5 Documentation

PDF

• Portable Document Format (PDF) Reference Manual

Unicode

• UTR-14 (Unicode Standard Annex #14: Line Breaking Properties)

Other

• Supported SVG Recommendation (04 September 2001)

Books, Tutorials, Articles

XSL-FO

• [online book] The XML Bible, by Elliotte Rusty Harold. Chapter 18 of XSL Formatting Objects
• [online article] Using XSL Formatting Objects, by J. David Eisenberg.
• [online reference] XSL FO reference, by Miloslav Nic.
• [online reference] Dave Pawson's XSL-FO FAQ.
• [book] XSL-FO, by Dave Pawson, O'Reilly & Associates, 2002, ISBN 0-596-00355-2.
• [book] Definitive XSL-FO, by G. Ken Holman, Prentice Hall PTR, 2003, ISBN 0-131-40374-5.
• [book] XSL Formatting Objects Developer's Handbook, by Doug Lovell, Sams, 2002, ISBN 0-672-32281-1.
• [book] Practical Formatting Using XSLFO, Crane Softwrights Ltd., 2003, ISBN 1-894049-11-X.
• [web site] www.xslfo.info A web site containing XSL-FO resources.

XSLT

• [online resource] Extensible Stylesheet Language Family (XSL), W3C XSL Family page.
• [book] XSLT Programmer's Reference, by Michael H. Kay, Wrox Press, ISBN 1-861-00506-7.
• [book] XSLT, by Doug Tidwell, O'Reilly & Associates, 2001, ISBN 0-596-00053-7.
• [book] XSLT Cookbook, by Sal Mangano, O'Reilly & Associates, 2002, ISBN 0-596-00372-2.
• [article] Dave Pawson's XSL FAQ.
• [book] XPath and XPointer: Locating Content in XML Documents, by John E. Simpson, O'Reilly & Associates, 2002, ISBN 0-596-00291-2.
• [book] Java and XSLT, by Eric M. Burke, O'Reilly & Associates, 2001, ISBN 0-596-00143-6.

XML

• [online book] The XML Bible, by Elliotte Rusty Harold.
• [book] XML in a Nutshell, by Elliotte Rusty Harold, W. Scott Means, O'Reilly & Associates, 2004, ISBN 0-596-00764-7.
• [book] Learning XML, by By Erik T. Ray, O'Reilly & Associates, 2003, ISBN 0-596-00420-6.
• [online resource] A great number of additional XML-related books and articles can be found at the O'Reilly XML Site.

Java

• [online resource] A great number of Java-related books and articles can be found at the O'Reilly Java Site.

PDF

• [online resource] Links to the various PDF file format specifications and numerous other documents can be found at the Adobe PDF Technology Center.
• [online resource] A list of PDF technical resources can be found at Acrobat/PDF technical information.
• [online resource] A list of Acrobat and PDF developer resources can be found at Adobe Solutions Network, Acrobat Resources, Acrobat Family Developer Center.

PostScript

• [online resource] A list of PostScript-related technical resources can be found at Adobe Solutions Network, PostScript Language Technical Notes

Mailing Lists

For help in understanding email acronyms, see the Lingo2Word Acronym List, or the Keno Internet Services Internet Glossary.

• W3C XSL-FO mailing list information
• W3C XSL-FO mailing list archives
• XSL-FO Mailing List (at YahooGroups)
• XSLT List (Mulberry Tech)

Related/Useful Products

Other XSL-FO Processors

We hope that FOray will meet your needs. However, more important than that, we hope that you will find a solution that works for you. Here is a list of our known competitors in case you need other options:

• [open-source] FOP. The original open-source XSL-FO processor, and the project from which FOray was forked.
• [open-source] Folio. Another FOP fork, led by Peter West.
• [commercial] RenderX XEP, EnMasse, Docbench...
• [commercial] Antenna House - XSL Formatter, WordMLToFo, XML Editor...

FOray add-ons

• [software] JAXG is a common front-end to several of the XSL-FO processors, including FOray. It eases the task of using more than one such processor and switching between them. It may also eventually provide common integration to Cocoon and other products.
• [software] Barcode4J (formerly Krysalis Barcode) is a barcode generator which we think can be used with FOray (Apache license v2.0).
• [software & tools] Objects For Formatting Objects hosts hyphenation patterns and (eventually) files other accessory data files & scripts.

PDF post-processors

• [software] iText (MPL and LGPL)
• [software] PJ Classic by Etymon (GPL)
• [software] PJ Professional by Etymon (commercial)
• [software] pdftk the pdf toolkit

XSL-FO editors

• [software] FOA (Formatting Objects Authoring) (MPL)
• [software] FOEditor by Scruffy Software (Shareware)
• [software] Scriptura by Inventive Designers (commercial)
• [software] XSLfast by jCatalog Software AG (commercial)
• [software] XML Report Styler by Rubico (commercial)

Other products

• [software] html2fo is a converter from HTML to XSL-FO (GPL).
• [software] wh2fo is a converter from Word HTML to XSL-FO (MPL).
• [software] RTF2FO is a converter from RTF to XSL-FO by Novosoft (commercial).
• [software] html2fo is a converter from HTML to XSL-FO (GPL).