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How XSL-FO Formatting Works

• XSL-FO provides a tag set into which XML documents
  may be transformed (using XSLT)
• The XSL-FO tags describe
  • the layout geometry of the page (into which you pour content)
  • a set of formatting objects
    • that say how to put content on the page
    • that describe how the document should be rendered
• An XSL-FO rendering engine makes pages/display
  from these tags
• An XSL-FO document is
  • an XML document
  • with text and graphic content wrapped in formatting object tags