Validating and Viewing XSL-FO Output

Greetings, all.  I was hoping I could tap into your expertise once again.  I have written a stylesheet utilizing XSL-FO, and I have confirmed it is well-formed by utilizing Internet Explorer.  Now I would like to do two very trivial things: validate my stylesheet and view the document.  However, it seems that neither is trivial.   I have been told that the former is impossible or at least very hard.  That seems strange to me, for although the XSL-FO specification is overwhelming in its size and complexity, it is still XML and a stylesheet either meets the rules of its "parent" schema or it does not.  Please offer some clarification on the extent to which XSL-FO can be validated.

As for the latter issue, once my document is well-formed, how can I view it?  I have tried to utilize X-Smiles (which in turn utilizes FOP I believe) but all I see is a blank window--no error messages or any such helpful things.  This probably means that the document is in fact not valid.  Is there a way to have X-Smiles be more descriptive?  Or more generally what advice would you give for rendering XSL-FO?

Thanks so much for your help.

Neil
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Neil Chaudhuri
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Systems Development & Technology Support
Logistics Management Institute
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