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When XSL-FO Is Not Useful

• Your content is not in XML, and is not likely to be
• Layout designers add value spread-by-spread
  (Wired Magazine, picture books)
• Your formatting requirements aren’t supported by:
  • the XSL-FO vocabulary
  • an existing XSL-FO engine (e.g., support for massive tables varies)
  • your tagging

(last bullet is the Achilles heel of XSL-FO [or any other] automation
the computer can’t know what you don’t tell it)