Useful tools

This page contains links to applications or utilities that people have found useful. Feel free to contribute by sending links or your own bit of code:

Documents

• A summary of the content and properties of XSL Formatting Objects by Richard Ishida

Stylesheets

• An XHTML to FO stylesheet, as well as many other useful ones, by Antenna House
• Another XHTML to FO stylesheet, by Max Froumentin. Sample PDF file.
• An FO to HTML stylesheet by RenderX.
• [4 Mar 2002] A zip file with XSL stylesheets from Antenna House:
  • xhtml2fo.xsl: A default style sheet for XHTML
  • xhtml2fo-justified.xsl: Slightly modified version of "xhtml2fo.xsl", with text-align="justify" and a couple of minor adjustments
  • xhtml2fo-multicolumn.xsl: Another slightly modified version of "xhtml2fo.xsl", with multi-column layout
  • Chocolate.xsl, Midnight.xsl, Modernist.xsl, Oldstyle.xsl, Steely.xsl, Swiss.xsl, Traditional.xsl, Ultramarine.xsl: XSL-FO version of W3C Core Styles
  • Traditional-ja.xsl:"Traditional" style for Japanese vertical layout
  • W3C-REC.xsl: XSL-FO version of W3C-REC.css
  • AXF-Help.xsl: A style sheet for XSL Formatter help files

DTDs

• RenderX's Formatting Objects DTD

Misc

• ShoXS: Shorter Syntax for XSL-T. The site provides some tools (GPL) to read XSL files, convert and edit in ShoXS, then convert back and save in XSL.
• RenderX's XSL-FO test cases