XSL-FO documents are XML files (.fo / .fob OR .xml ? for being accessible by XML editors) with output information about the layout and contents.

Document Structure:

As usual they need to start with the version and the encoding declaration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<fo:root> </fo:root>

Namespace attribute can be written as:

<fo:root xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">-----------------Root element of XSL-FO documents. You can have the whole document within these tags.

<fo:layout-master-set> ----------------Contains page templates

<fo:simple-page-master>----------------Contains a single page template

<fo:page-sequence> ------------------------Describes the page contents