Generating Formatting Objects

You can use Stylus Studio to develop a stylesheet that generates XSL Formatting Objects (FO). In the scenario in which you apply such a stylesheet, you can specify that Stylus Studio should run a Formatting Objects Processor (FOP) on the stylesheet's result document. When you apply the stylesheet and preview the results, Stylus Studio displays the formatted results.

Stylus Studio includes The Apache Software Organization's FOP, and it is configured to always generate PDF. If you want to run a FOP to generate some other type of output, you must specify some other FOP in the Custom post-process fields of the Post-process tab of the Scenario Properties dialog box.

Stylus Studio includes two sample stylesheets that generate formatting objects. These files are in the examples\XSLFormattingObjects directory of your Stylus Studio installation directory.

This section covers the following topics:

Note

 

FO is a W3C recommendation for an XML vocabulary that describes how to format text. FO is one part of XSL. This section assumes that you are familiar with FO. For additional information about FO, see http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/.

Why XQuery - The Case for XQuery

Read "The Case for XQuery" - an article that debuted in the November 2005 issue of SOA WebServices Journal, written by Jerry King, Vice President of DataDirect Technologies.

Electronics & Electrical Equipment

Many electronics and electrical equipment companies need the most powerful XML IDE to power up their companies. Come see which electronics & electrical equipment companies are wired up with Stylus Studio 2006.

XQuery Documentation Generator

Stylus Studio provides integrated support for xqDoc so you can generate XQuery documentation directly from the XQuery editor.

Using DataDirect XQuery with Stylus Studio

Learn how to query any relational database using XQuery and the XQuery API for Java using DataDirect XQuery, an embeddable Java component, and Stylus Studio the world's leading XML IDE.

Stylus Most Wanted

 
Free Stylus Studio XML Training:
W3C Member