1. Introduction.
Who Needs FO? What Do You Need to Know? Overview of the Book. Fine Print.
2. From Content to Presentation.
Aviation Weather Example. XML Encoded Weather. Some Common Templates. A Style Sheet to Produce HTML. A Style Sheet to Produce XSL FO. A Style Sheet to Produce WML. Summary.
3. Tools and Implementations.
Online Resources. Transform Engines. Formatters. Editors. Summary.
4. Hello XSL World.
A First XML/XSL Pair. A Style Sheet for the Root Rule. Summary.
5. Color, Fonts, and Rules.
A Bulletin. Skeletons in the Closet. Font Selection. Rules and Borders. The Colorful Truth. Summary.
6. Block and Inline.
Box Model. Screenplay Example. block and block-container. Inheritance and the Wrapper. inline and inline-container. Space, Margins, and Indents. Justification. text-transform. Summary.
7. White Space and Line Handling.
Ignoring Space and Newlines. Honoring Newlines. Honoring Spaces. Word Space. Line Wrapping Override. Leading. Subscripts and Superscripts. Paragraph Separation. Summary.
8. Page Styling.
Simple Page Model. Flow and Static Content. Sequences. Summary.
9. Tables and Alignments.
Tabular Alignment. Separate and Collapsed Borders. Explicit Rows. Table Column Definitions. Placing Headers and Footers on a Table. Column and Row Spanning. Content of a Cell. Captioning a Table. Summary.
10. Lists and Leaders.
Structure of a List. Bullets and Checklists. Enumerated List. Descriptive List. Lead Me On. Summary.
11. Keeps, Breaks, and Columns.
A Sample Input Document. Columns. Play for Keeps or Break It Up. Summary.
12. Embedding Diagrams and Images.
Embedding an External Resource. Embedding a Diagram. Placement and Alignment. Character. Background Effects. Summary.
13. Footnotes and Floats.
An Epistle with Footnotes and Floats. Footnotes. Before Floats. Side Floats. Summary.
14. Dynamic Effects.
Scrolling. Hyperlink. Altered States. Toggle Switch. Summary.
15. Going Global.
Writing Direction. Mixing Scripts. Summary.
Appendix A. Basics of the XSL Transform.
The Processing Model. Reorganizing the Input. Processing Text. Processing Attributes. Summary.
Appendix B. A Concise Listing of Formatting Objects.
Formatting Object Categories. Formatting Objects.
Appendix C. A Concise Listing of Properties.
Property Categories. Property Types. Properties.
Index.
