| RenderX | XEP Engine - XEP Engine is the formatting force behind most other solutions. XEP converts XML documents into a printable form (PDF or PostScript) by applying XSL Formatting Objects. |
| RenderX | XEPWin Engine - All the power of our flagship XEP Engine in a package suited for Windows-based deployments. XEPWin Engine is a .NET wrapper surrounding XEP Engine and includes several applications for increasing your productivity on the Windows platform. |
| RenderX | XEP Connectivity Kit - Includes all programmer guides, APIs, pre-built connectors and sample code to plug XEP into wide range of personal and server-side applications. This package is ideal for those who wish to integrate XEP into their application server, database server or business application |
| RenderX | XEP WinSuite - Includes applications, sample code and documentation targeted at .NET programmers. The WinSuite Kit enables XEP engine as a Windows .NET and COM+ Service and registers the application in the assembly cache. This package is ideal for Windows programmers looking to add rendering capabilities to Visual Basic.NET and ASP.NET applications. |
| RenderX | XEP EnMasse - An XEP "amplifier" — it controls XEP engines running on multiple computers in parallel. Their joint power is controlled through a single access point, configurable with a web browser. This is the right solution for all high-performance solutions and can easily expand with your business requirements. |
| RenderX | XEP DataStyler (Beta) - n application that uses Microsoft Word 2003/2007 for quick creation of templates for variable data embedding. The application utilizes RenderX XEP to produce final reports in the PDF, PostScript or AFP formats. |
| RenderX | XEP DataStyler API (Beta) - Command line utility for data merge and reports generation. This application uses templates created with DataStyler and XML data source files to produce printable reports. It is a 100-percent Java application and can be run on both Windows and Linux/Unix platforms. |
| RenderX | XML Report Generator (XMLRG) (Beta) - A web application that uses templates based on Microsoft Word 2003/2007 for variable data merging from Oracle Database 9i/10g. The application uses RenderX XEP to produce final reports in the PDF, PostScript and AFP formats. |
| RenderX | XEP XML Report Generator (XMLRG) API (Beta) - A library to design report generating applications with Oracle XML DB backend and XEP rendering functionality. It also can be integrated into the custom solution as a report generator. |
| RenderX | XEP DocBench - An integrated package of XML editor and RenderX XEP Desktop — both applications in a single install. They are tuned to work together and deliver users a complete authoring environment. This package is ideal for authors of technical documents, manuals and guides as well as a perfect set of applications for the XSL designer. |
| RenderX | Visual-XSL (VisualXSL) - For overlaying content on forms, such as checks, claims, applications, or government forms. Allows import of an existing, single- and multi-page PDF form or a scanned image (PNG, TIFF, JPG, or GIF) and use a simple GUI to drag-and-drop content to be positioned on that form. The application generates an XSL stylesheet based on the designed layout. A user can create an XSL stylesheet visually, quickly, without coding or any XSL-FO (XSLFO) knowledge. The resulting XSL can be used in combination with the server-side XEP for merging millions of records to fill forms. |
| RenderX | XEP INX2FO Plug-In Beta for Adobe InDesign - For dynamic, flowing documents such as contracts, statements, loan packages, and marketing materials there is INX2FO Plug-In developed by RenderX. The plug-in can leverage the power of the widely-used Adobe InDesign CS2. The primary purpose of the solution is to provide the ability to generate documents with dynamically embedded data with a few mouse clicks. The plug-in simplifies transformation of Adobe InDesign CS2 documents to PDF or PostScript document formats, using the INX2FO stylesheets and the RenderX XEP/XEPWin engine. |
| RenderX | Microsoft WordprocessingML to XSL FO (XSLFO) Converter - These style sheets were prepared by RenderX's development team and Microsoft for general use. They are designed to convert Microsoft's WordprocessingML to XSL FO (XSLFO). Here you will find links to download the style sheets and related components from the Microsoft web site to assist you in your projects involving Word and XSL FO (XSLFO). |
| RenderX | Adobe InDesign INX to XSL FO (XSLFO) Converter - A set of stylesheets designed to convert Adobe InDesign Interchange (INX) documents to XSL FO (XSLFO). Here you will find link to download the stylesheets. Adobe InDesign is a general purpose design tool. The combination InDesign and RenderX XEP, using these stylesheets enables developers to put together a total solution - an easy-to-use designer with a high-volume, batch formatting engine for high performance merge and print. |
| RenderX | XSL FO (XSLFO) to HTML Conversion - XSL Formatting Objects are an XML dialect so you can render them to HTML using an XSLT stylesheet. This free converter is an attempt to do just that. You can download the style sheets along with a copy of the RenderX trial software from the download section. |
| RenderX | XSL FO (XSLFO) Validators - XSL FO (XSLFO) schemata and validation tools developed at RenderX. The tools use DTD, XSLT, and Relax NG, many of these were used to validate input in various versions of XEP. |
| RenderX | XSL Barcode Generator - A library of SVG barcode generators developed by the RenderX technical team, including a live demonstration of servlet connector from the Connectivity Kit. These generators are tested to work with the XEP Engine. Barcodes are simple to represent but difficult to generate. These examples use XSLT to implement the computational part and SVG to draw the image. The complete set is freely available to use in your applications. |
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| SoftProject GmbH | XSL:Easy - "A tool for visual design of XML data transformations. It offers an user-friendly, graphical way to create powerful XSLT stylesheets. Simple, visual designing of XSLT transformations coupled with adapters for integration with legacy data, databases and web services makes xsl:easy the tool that will make data work for you the easy way.
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| SoftProject GmbH | xsl:easy for Eclipse - Stylesheet editor for the Eclipse IDE. Design XSLT stylesheets using unified mapper and code editor. Edit source code directly in the tree and maintain constant overview with XPath visualization and validation. |
| Re.be | CSS2XSLFO - A utility which can convert an XML document, together with a CSS2 style sheet, into an XSL-FO document, which can then be converted into PDF, PostScript, etc. with an XSL-FO-processor. It has special support for the XHTML vocabulary, because that is the most obvious language it would be used for. The tool has a number of page-related extensions. It also comes with an API in the form of an XML filter. |
| Antenna House | XSL Formatter - Antenna House XSL Formatter V4.2 offers all the features (GUI, support for over 50 languages, PDF generation), W3C compliance, extensions, the significantly enhanced performance, unlimited document size and SVG support, vector support for EMF and WMF, new output capabilities, MathML native drawing, WordML transformation, XSL Report Designer integration, support for SVG output by SVG Output Option, PANTONE® color support by PANTONE® Option and Web Service Interface to support the use of XSL Formatter via the Internet, dwawing of Microsoft® Excel Chart by Chart Option, the two-pass formatting that makes it possible to format huge documents, high quality EPS embedding in PDF. In addition V4.2 newly offers the enhanced PDF features, AcroForms, PDF/A, PDF1.7, PostScript output, PDF Digital Signature and numerous other enhancements by AXF extension. Antenna House XSL Formatter V4 can transform an XML document into XSL Formatting Objects (XSL-FO) by using XSL stylesheets or work directly with an XSL-FO file, format the XSL-FO, and output it to either a PDF file or if on a Windows system directly to a printer. XSL Formatter V4.2 is based on Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1. |
| Antenna House | XSL Formatter Lite - XSL Formatter V4.2 Lite is a lower priced version of XSL Formatter for those customers who produce smaller documents (under 300 pages) and only work with the over 40 languages that write from left to right. Lite offers the same quality, GUI, speed, PDF output capabilities, integration interfaces and graphic support as the standard version of Formatter but for less than one-third of the price. Also, Lite does not come with the 90 days of free support that the full version of Formatter comes with. Available in Standalone, Server and Developer versions, Lite fits many of today's production requirements. |
| Lunasil | XINC (Last Update 2005) - An XSL-FO processor which was designed to be fast and memory efficient. A Java Swing viewer allows you to view and print XSL-FO files as well as generate PDF files with the click of a button. Xinc can be used as a server component via its Java API. Xinc can also be used in a Microsoft server environment by using its COM interface. |
| Apache | FOP - Apache FOP (Formatting Objects Processor) is a print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and an output independent formatter. It is a Java application that reads a formatting object (FO) tree and renders the resulting pages to a specified output. Output formats currently supported include PDF, PS, PCL, AFP, XML (area tree representation), Print, AWT and PNG, and to a lesser extent, RTF and TXT. The primary output target is PDF. The latest stable version of FOP (0.94) is the second stable release after a large redesign effort and implements a large subset of the XSL-FO Version 1.1 W3C Recommendation. |
| TEI Consortium, Sebastian Rahtz, Oxford University | PassivTex - PassiveTeX is a library of TeX macros which can be used to process an XML document which results from an XSL transformation to formatting objects. PassiveTeX provides a rapid development environment for experimenting with XSL FO, using a reliable pre-existing formatter. Running PassiveTeX with the pdfTeX variant of TeX generates high-quality PDF files in a single operation. PassiveTeX shows how TeX can remain the formatter of choice for XML, while hiding the details of its operation from the user. |
| Unicorn Enterprises SA | Unicorn Formatting Objects - XML formatter that supports a representative subset of the Extensible Formatting Language (XSL). The UFO processor reads source documents containing XML trees in "fo" namespace, performs the formatting, and outputs results in the PostScript Level 2 format. |
| Unicorn Enterprises SA | Unicorn Extensible Stylesheets - Proprietary? |
| Trac? | XMLROFF - xmlroff is a fast, free, high-quality, multi-platform XSL formatter that aims to excel at DocBook formatting and that integrates easily with other programs and with scripting languages. |
| ? | HTML2fo - a HTML to XSL:FO converter (Last Update 2002) - A converter for HTML files to the new XSL:FO format. It supports most of the usual tags. If you are missing a tag or think a tag is not handled as expected please open a feature request item. You may think that you have a XSLT which does the same job. But html2fo does convert documents which are not XML conform. |
| Alt Soft | Xml2PDF - Microsoft .NET based XML publishing and font management solutions for server and desktop use. |
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| Progress Software Corp. (DataDirect Technologies) | Stylus Studio - An advanced XML Integrated Development Environment (XML IDE) consisting of hundreds of powerful XML tools in one all-inclusive suite, and high-performance Java & .NET components for deploying data integration applications. Stylus Studio® 2008 adds powerful new features, again pushing the innovation envelope that helped establish Stylus Studio® as the premier XML IDE. Stylus Studio®'s best-in-class features for working with XML, XQuery, XML Pipeline, XSLT, XSL:FO, EDI, XML Schema/DTD, XPath, XML & Databases, XHTML, XML mapping, XML publishing, Web services set a new benchmark for XML productivity |
| SyncRO Soft Ltd. | Oxygen XML Editor and XSLT Debugger - A complete cross platform XML editor providing the tools for XML authoring, XML conversion, XML Schema, DTD, Relax NG and Schematron development, XPath, XSLT, XQuery debugging, SOAP and WSDL testing. The integration with the XML document repositories is made through the WebDAV, Subversion and S/FTP protocols. Also supports browse, manage and query native XML and relational databases. The oXygen XML editor is also available as an Eclipse IDE plugin, bringing unique XML development features to this widely used Java IDE. |
| Axos Technologies | DocDesign - A comprehensive, efficient, state of the art Document Design Tool to design and engineer personalized mass business documents based on open XML and XSL standards. (Uses RenderX XEP.) |
| Axos Technologies | DocBase - Manages complete document production processes, integrates business applications and outputs their data to many different communication channels. (Uses RenderX XEP.) |
| Assentis Technologies | DocBase - Features a new separate component that manages the conversion of input print-files. With this component, ready print-files are converted on demand from a specific input data format into a specific output data format. For instance, print-files in AFPDS, Postscript, PDF, PDF-X, PDF-A, Java2D, and XPS data formats are converted into a different output format such as PDF, AFPDS, Postscript, PCL, XHTML, and Java2D. |
| Altova | XMLSpy - XML development environment, including an XML editor, a schema designer, code generator, file converters, debuggers, profilers, support for XSLT, XQuery, WSDL, SOAP, .NET, Eclipse, and more. |
| Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) | Arbortext - Arbortext is a content publishing system that streamlines and automates your information publishing process and eliminates costly inefficiencies. Leveraging XML authoring, technical illustration creation, content and process management, and dynamic enterprise publishing capabilities of Arbortext, you can improve your publishing processes and help your organization gain significant competitive advantage and lasting differentiation. |
| Rascal Software | (defunct) |
| Ideal Systems | I-Docs - An enterprise application for organizations that generate large volumes of documents, such as telecom invoices, bank statements, utility bills and other customer documents that are commonly sent by mail mass. The software is used by large Telecom and Finance institutions, such as Vodafone, Wind, and First Data Corporation. |
| XyEnterprise | XyEnterprise - XyEnterprise delivers out-of-the-box XML content management and publishing solutions designed to maximize content reusability and repurposing. We take a standards-based approach to creating, managing and delivering content — and streamline the way organizations capture, share and maintain dynamic information. |
| XyEnterprise | XPP: High-performance XML publisher - Turns XML content into high-quality composed and paginated Postscript or PDF output. (Appears to use Antenna House XSL Formatter) |
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| W3C | The Extensible Stylesheet Language Family (XSL) |
| (Info) | XML.XSL Portal |
| (Info) | XML/XSL Tutorials |
| (Info) | Implementing XSL-FO Formatting Objects Using Apache FOP (By Gerardo Garcia) |
| (Info) | Using XSL-FO to create printable documents |
| (Info) | XSL-FO Stylesheets Online |