| FOP readme | |
| What is FOP? | |
| FOP is the world's first print formatter driven by XSL formatting | |
| objects. It is a Java 1.1 application that reads a formatting object | |
| tree and then turns it into a PDF document. The formatting object | |
| tree, can be in the form of an XML document (output by an XSLT engine | |
| like XT or Xalan) or can be passed in memory as a DOM Document or (in | |
| the case of XT) SAX events. | |
| FOP is part of Apache's XML project. The homepage of FOP is | |
| http:/xml.apache.org/fop | |
| HTML-Documentation can be found in the subdirectory /docs. | |
| Compilation of Fop is started by executing build. It requires | |
| Xerces-J, Xalan and bsf.jar (comes with Xalan) in your classpath. | |
| Fop builds successfully with Xerces 1.1.2 and Xalan 1.1, earlier versions | |
| may prove problematic, if they don't support the final version of SAX 2. | |
| You can find more details in build.xml or in the documentation under the | |
| heading 'compiling'. | |