What You Need to Know to Write an XSL-FO Stylesheet
- XML source tags (what are they, what do they mean)
- Target page design (look, behavior)
- The XSL-FO vocabulary (how to make the desired effects)
- Some XSLT, maybe quite a lot (how to do the transform)
- Relation between XML source and desired effects
(typically expressed as a specification, like a typesetting specification)