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Home >Online Product Documentation >Table of Contents >Viewing the FO Sample Application Viewing the FO Sample ApplicationTo view the FO sample application included with Stylus Studio:
1. In Stylus Studio, open the examples\XSLFormattingObjects\minimal-catalog.xsl file in your Stylus Studio installation directory.
Alternative: If the Stylus Studio
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In this scenario, Stylus Studio selects elements to operate on from three different documents. These documents are in the
2. Click Preview Result 
. As you can see, the Output Window shows some post-processing information messages. After a few seconds, the Preview window displays the PDF result in Acrobat Reader. The result contains a few lines of text for each video and book found in the XML source documents. The title, author or director, and the description is included for each item. It is hard to see where information for one item ends and another begins.
3. Examine the stylesheet. It contains the minimum FO instructions required to generate FO. There is no formatting to make the result document easier to read. You can use this stylesheet as a skeleton for creating your own stylesheets that generate FO.
4. Now open the examples\XSLFormattingObjects\catalog.xsl stylesheet.
5. Click Preview Result
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This time the PDF result in the Preview window is nicely formatted. The |
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