Formatting XML Output Using XML-FO

XML-FO or XML Format is used to format and beautify the output of XML for output display to the user . In reality, XML-FO is the formatting part of XSL (as opposed to XSLT). Both of these have already been covered extensively in this book.

This chapter has expanded more into the realm of front-end applications rather than specific database activity. Still, XLink, XPointer, and XForms are important XML technologies, even if only partially database-driven in nature. The next chapter examines Document Type Definitions (DTD) and XML Schemas both of which are used to form a direct mapping between XML document data and relational database table structures.

This chapter has no Try It Out sections because a large majority of this functionality is not released for general use and may depend on browser type and version.