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What is XSL-FO

Extensible Stylesheet Language-Formatting Objects

• A way to make print directly from XML
• A page description language (that particular software can read)
• XSL-FO rendering software
  • takes XML as input
  • gives PDF, Postscript (RTF, MIF, etc.) as output
• Described in a W3C recommendation called XSL
  (Extensible Stylesheet Language)

(Not new, recommendation since 2001)