How XSL Formatter V4 Works

When you are going to install this software on Windows 2000, XP please login as a member of administrators. You cannot install on Windows 2000, without administration rights. In Windows XP, the following error message appears and installation may be failed. "The InstallShield Engine (iKernel.exe) could not be launched. Class not registered"

In the Linux environment XSL Formatter V4.2 for Solaris/Linux is built using GCC 3.2.X version. The binary program generated from this version explicitly links libstdc++.so.5 as runtime-library. libstdc++.so.5 is generally bundled in current released Linux distributions. If your Linux environment does not include libstdc++.so.5, you should get it from your distributor.

Antenna House Formatter uses an XSLT processor for converting XML documents and XSL stylesheets into XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO). In the Windows version, either MSXML4 or MSXML3 is used as the standard XSLT processor. Windows users have the option to use a different XSLT processor if desired. Solaris/Linux users set their desired XSLT processor through the "Environment Variable" or "Option Setting File". For Windows XP, Internet Explore 6 or later MSXML3 is already installed. There is no need for the user to separately install MSXML3.

• XSL Formatter V4.2 is based on Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1 W3C Recommendation.
• Implementation of Formatting Objects and Formatting Properties are shown at XSL-FO Conformance.

XSL Formatter V4.2 supports languages expressed with the following scripts among the scripts specified by ISO 15924.

• Latn : Latin
• Grek : Greek
• Cyrl : Cyrillic
• Arab : Arabic no-LT
• Hebr : Hebrew no-LT
• Deva : Devanagari V4.2 no-LT
• Thai : Thai no-LT
• Kana : Katakana
• Hira : Hiragana
• Hang : Hangul
• Hani : Han (Kanji)
• Hans : Han (Chinese Simplified)
• Hant : Han (Chinese Traditional)
• Jpan : Japanese (Han+Hira+Kana)

Depending on the language, it's possible to hyphenate the Latin script, the Greek script and the Cyrille script. XSL Formatter V4.2?Lite doesn't support Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari and Thai. XSL Formatter V4.2?Lite has some ristrictions in formatting the CJK script (Hangul, Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji).

XSL Formatter V4.2 supports the following FO Encodings. These are a part of CHARACTER SETS of IANA.

• UTF-8
• UTF-16
• UTF-32
• ISO-10646-UCS-2
• ISO-10646-UCS-4
• ANSI_X3.4
• ISO_646.irv
• ISO646-US
• US-ASCII
• ISO_8859-1
• latin1

Followings are supported only with XSL Formatter V4.2. These are not supported with XSL Formatter V4.2 Lite.

• Windows-31J
• Shift_JIS
• EUC-JP
• ISO-2022-JP
• GB18030
• GBK
• GB2312
• Big5
• KS_C_5601-1987
• iso-ir-149
• korean

Antenna House DMC Text Filter Library is used for mapping the each FO encodings.

Regarding the XML document and the XSL stylesheet, it depends on the XSLT processor to be used.

• Command-line Interface

  The Command-line Interface is provided as an executable file. You can call it from Windows batch file or Solaris shell script.

  XSL Formatter V4.2 Command-line Interface can be executed by specifying FO (XSL Formatting Objects) files. Also it can be executed as a filter that reads FO from standard in and writes PDF to standard out.

• COM/.NET Interface

  The COM interface makes it possible for XSL Formatter to function as a COM Server through the applications using COM-supported languages such as Visual Basic, Delphi. In the same way, the .NET interface makes it possible for XSL Formatter to function as .NET Server through applications made by Visual Basic.NET, Visual C#.NET.

• Java Interface

  This interface provides you with the Interface for XSL Formatter V4.2 from Java. This program is availabe in the following Java environment.

  • Java version "1.4.1"
  • Java™2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.1-b21)
  • Java HotSpot™ Client VM (build 1.4.1-b21, mixed mode)

We provide COM/.NET Interface, Command-line Interface, and JAVA Interface in order to integrate the core formatting engine of XSL Formatter V4.2 into your system easily.