XSL FO Sample Copyright © 1996-2005 Antenna House, Inc. All rights reserved. Layout by side float The left indent in the text is 7cm. Side float is placed inside the right indent of the text. Image 1: image inside the side float An image is inserted at the beginning of the paragraph as fo:float. Set 0cm as the indent of 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. This means that XML-to-XSL formatting offers an overwhelming advantage over DTP when you need to format a massive document or a document with repetitive layout -- on the other hand, DTP will be more appropriate for processing a small volume with highly-varied layout. Head An image is inserted to the next line as fo:float. Image 2: image inside the side 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. This means that XML-to-XSL formatting offers an overwhelming advantage over DTP when you need to format a massive document or a document with repetitive layout -- on the other hand, DTP will be more appropriate for processing a small volume with highly-varied layout.