- From: Janet Daly <janet@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 06:51:37 -0800
- To: w3c-news@w3.org
In response to user and vendor feedback, W3C has revised the widely
deployed XML formatting standard XSL-FO 1.0 to support the creation
of back-of-the-book style indexes, revision bars, PDF bookmarks, and
to include other popular features.
For more information, please contact Janet Daly, W3C Global
Communications Officer, at +1 617 253 5884 <janet@w3.org>, or the W3C
Communications Team representative in your region.
W3C Updates XML Formatting Standard to Incorporate Popular Extensions
XSL-FO Improvements Benefit Printing, Online Display
Web Resources
This press release
In English: http://www.w3.org/2006/12/xsl11-pressrelease.html.en
In Japanese: http://www.w3.org/2006/12/xsl11-
pressrelease.html.ja
XSL-FO 1.1 Recommendation
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xsl11-20061205/
http://www.w3.org/ -- 5 December 2006 -- In response to user and
vendor feedback, W3C has revised the widely deployed XML formatting
standard XSL-FO 1.0 to support the creation of back-of-the-book style
indexes, revision bars, PDF bookmarks, and to include other popular
features. The new XSL-FO 1.1 Recommendation increases
interoperability by standardizing these features and other
enhancements, formerly only available as proprietary extensions.
XSL-FO 1.1 Adds New Functionality
As a result of extensive experience with XSL-FO for printing and
display XML — more than 20 commercial implementations supporting more
than 50 languages — users and vendors alike called upon the XSL
Working Group to standardize a number of popular, but proprietary,
extensions. These included support for back-of-the-book style
indexed, revision bars, PDF bookmarks, conditional text "markers" in
tables (for example to support partial sums of financial data),
access to the number of the last page of a group, and multiple flows
on a page.
In addition to adding these features to XSL-FO 1.1, the XSL Working
Group enhanced a number of XSL-FO 1.0 features, providing for
multiple color profile references, more complex page numbering
schemes, and clarifications for internationalization.
These changes, and the incorporation of corrected errata, represent
the incremental evolution of the XSL-FO 1.0 specification. The
Working Group has made these changes with careful attention both to
backwards compatibility and to interoperability between existing
implementations.
New Opportunities as XSL-FO 2.0 Work Begins
At the W3C International Workshop on the future of the Extensible
Stylesheet Language (XSL-FO) Version 2.0 in October 2006, nearly 40
participants agreed (see the report that work should begin on XSL-FO
2.0. W3C expects this work to begin in earnest in January 2007. Non-
Member organizations interested in participating are encouraged to
contact W3C for information on joining the Consortium and this
Working Group in particular.
Industry Leaders and Experts Contribute to Strength of XSL-FO 1.1
The XSL-FO 1.1 specification was developed by the XSL-FO Subgroup of
the XSL Working Group, and approved for publication by the W3C XSL
Working Group (WG). During the development of XSL 1.1 the members of
the XSL-FO Subgroup included contributions from Adobe Systems Inc;
HP; IBM; Inventive Designers; Isogen; Pageflex; PTC-Arbortext;
RenderX; and Sun Microsystems.
Contact Americas, Australia --
Janet Daly, <janet@w3.org>, +1.617.253.5884 or +1.617.253.2613
Contact Europe, Africa and the Middle East-
Marie-Claire Forgue, <mcf@w3.org>, +33.492.38.75.94
Contact Asia --
Yasuyuki Hirakawa <chibao@w3.org>, +81.466.49.1170
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