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Flowing XSL-FO into a Composition Engine

(May be the best of both worlds)

• Run XSL-FO stylesheet making formatting objects
• Open results in a composition engine
• Change XML and reflow if content changes
• Make non-content tweaks inside the composition system
  • Graphics placement
  • Column balancing
  • Floats, keeps, widow, orphans
• You get both
  • clean validatable (XML ) input and batch processing and
  • ability to tweak pages by hand

(There are composition systems that accept XSL-FO input)