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A New Option: Making Print Directly From XML

Using XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language-Formatting Objects)

• A way to make PDF, Postscript, RTF, TeX, etc. directly from XML
• Application-independent vocabulary for specifying
  • text formatting
  • page-layout
• Special-purpose XSL-FO rendering software
  • takes XML as input
  • gives PDF, Postscript (RTF, MIF, etc.) as output

(Typesetters understand XSL-FO better than do most people who work with XML)