XSL FO Sample Copyright © 1996-2005 Antenna House, Inc. All rights reserved. Side float <fo:float float="start"> Image 1: image inside the side float An image is inserted at the beginning of the paragraph as fo:float. Since DTP requires a person to compose layout page by page, work load increases proportionate of number of pages contained in a given document. In contrast, XSL formatting processes the prepared XML document as a batch. To format XML using XSL requires development of a stylesheet. Work load is proportionate to the number of tag sets and the complexity of layout, not the number of pages. Side float <fo:float float="end"> An image is inserted to the next line as fo:float. Image 2: image inside the side float An image is inserted at the end of the paragraph as fo:float. Since DTP requires a person to compose layout page by page, work load increases proportionate of number of pages contained in a given document. In contrast, XSL formatting processes the prepared XML document as a batch. To format XML using XSL requires development of a stylesheet. Work load is proportionate to the number of tag sets and the complexity of layout, not the number of pages. Side float <fo:float float="start"> An image is inserted to the next line as fo:float. Place the image inside the indent of the block. Image 3: image inside the side float An image is inserted at the beginning of the paragraph as fo:float. Since DTP requires a person to compose layout page by page, work load increases proportionate of number of pages contained in a given document. In contrast, XSL formatting processes the prepared XML document as a batch. To format XML using XSL requires development of a stylesheet. Work load is proportionate to the number of tag sets and the complexity of layout, not the number of pages.