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How do You Train an XSL-FO Programmer

(Hint: It is more critical to know typesetting than programming)

• They must know XML and XSLT
• Download an evaluation XSL-FO engine (free for a while)
• Read any tutorials and examples that come with the engine
• Program something simple (not live data)
• Download the XSL spec from W3C and print it (it’s big!)
• Take a course (many available)
• Buy
  • Michael Kay’s XSLT Programmer’s Reference
    (and/or haunt Zvon)
  • One of the XSL-FO books (for reference)
• Read some GOOD code (e.g., Ken Holman’s UbXML stylesheets)
• Read the XSL list and XSL-FO lists and ask questions

* URLs for all the above are in the appendices