XMLmind logoCompany | Contact | Site Map
 
 

XMLmind XSL-FO Converter

XMLmind XSL-FO Converter is an XSL-FO processor similar to Apache FOP, RenderX XEP or Antenna House XSL Formatter. Unlike the aforementioned processors which all renders XSL-FO as PDF and PostScript®, XMLmind XSL-FO Converter converts XSL-FO v1.0 to the following formats:

  • RTF (can be opened in Word 2000+),
  • WordprocessingML (can be opened in Word 2003+),
  • Office Open XML (.docx, can be opened in Word 2007+),
  • OpenOffice (.odt, can be opened in OpenOffice/LibreOffice 2+).

In other words, XMLmind XSL-FO Converter translates one format, XSL-FO v1.0, to the file formats of the two most commonly used word processors, Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org Writer.

item How it works.
item Some of the problems solved by XMLmind XSL-FO Converter.
item Why choose XMLmind XSL-FO Converter?

How works XMLmind XSL-FO Converter
Click to enlarge.
See also RTF in MS-Word 2000, WML in MS-Word 2003, Open XML in MS-Word 2007, OpenDocument in OpenOffice.org.

One technology but two platforms and three software distributions

  • The XMLmind XSL-FO Converter engine is available in two versions, targeted at the Java 1.4+ Platform and the Microsoft .NET 2.0+ Framework respectively.
  • The XMLmind XSL-FO Converter product is available as three software distributions: the XMLmind XSL-FO Converter engine, XMLmind XSL Utility, XMLmind XSL Server. In principle, each distribution serves a different purpose and hence targets a different audience. However feel free to download all the three distributions if you want.
v4.8.1 (February 25, 2013): XMLmind XSL Utility and XMLmind XSL Server now allow to convert DITA documents, possibly containing SVG, MathML, audio, video, Flash animations and actions (e.g. click some text to play a sound), to XHTML5 pages, Web Help containing XHTML5 pages and EPUB3.
v4.8 (November 23, 2012): Highlights:
  • Can now rotate the content of a table cell.
  • Can now add language information to the files it creates (e.g. for use by the spell checker of the target word processor).
  • XMLmind XSL Utility: more convenient preview feature.
v4.7 (July 20, 2012): Highlights:
  • Personal Edition replaced by Evaluation Edition.
  • XMLmind XSL Utility: new Customize button allows to automatically create a customization of the XSLT stylesheet currently selected. New Edit button invokes a specialized editor called XMLmind XSL Customizer. This editor allows to add parameters and attribute sets to the newly created XSLT customization and this, without prior knowledge of XSL.
  • A few minor enhancements and bug fixes.
v4.6.1 (March 23, 2012): XMLmind XSL Utility and XMLmind XSL Server:
  • now integrate much improved XMLmind DITA Converter (ditac) v2.2;
  • use new XSLT 2 stylesheets allowing to convert XHTML 1.0, 1.1 and 5.0 documents to PostScript, PDF, RTF, WordprocessingML, Office Open XML (.docx) and OpenOffice (.odt).

    These XSLT 2 stylesheets support a large number of parameters. They make an extensive use of xsl:attribute-sets. Last but not least, by default, CSS styles specified in XHTML style attributes, style and link elements also apply to the XSL-FO file generated by these XSLT 2 stylesheets.