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How Using XSL-FO Compares to Using HTML

HTML is one way to display XML

• HTML is a vocabulary of tags into which XML can be translated
• HTML software (a browser) makes the display from those tags
• We know the vocabulary to make the screen effect we want

  <p>...</p>
  <b>Wow!</b>
  <span style="font-style: italic">...</span>

(Native HTML does not enable complex page layout, multiple columns, running heads, keeps and breaks)