User:Siringa/Renderx & XSL FO Community

Books on Google
Dave Pawson p. 177: "The diagram in this section explains how to specify your pages in document tree form. I guess it was from this section that RenderX derived their document type definition that I find so useful."

Dave Pawson p. xv: "To Nikolai Grigoriev of RenderX and Arved Sandstrom of e-plicity and FOP, and Karen Lease, also a member of FOP team, for their contributions, and also for their early support of the belief that we could write a book."

Dave Pawson p. 185: "My personal choice, today, would extend from the open source PassiveTEX, through the commercial RenderX or Antenna House products for the programmers, to the Epic Editor suite (when I have a need for a standards-based environment). Each has a place; no single implementation will be suitable for all users."

Dave Pawson p.179: "RenderX XEP Formatter. XEP is an engine that converts XSL-FO documents to printable form (PDF or PostScript). An evaluation package with limited functionality is freely available. It aligns with the November 2001 Recommendation. Extensions are included and partial SVG support is now available. I think XEP is the most established product; it was certainly the first one I came across. Developed by a small and dedicated team, it's a commercial products, with an evaluation version available for download. The evaluation version is restricte in the number of pages it will output. it produces PDF and PostScript output. Its command-line interface is convinient, and it has good error reporting. It's developers, who are contributors on the XSL-FO related lists, are very helpful. Inputting of an XML file in the fo namespace, will deliver PDF in the evaluation version. An implemantation features list is available on their web site, http://www.renderx.com. XEP is written in Java and runs on any system that supports Java 2 (JDK/JRE 1.1.8) and above. Their web site hosts many demonstration files, and they have provided the W3C with PDF version of the Recommendation ready for printing."

Dave Pawson p. 7: "FOP and RenderX require a JavaTM installation, available on most platforms."

Dave Pawson p. 171: "Another option is to use the DTD provided by RenderX, and see if the fo file will validate to it. This is not guaranteed to work, but is very helpful. It does mean working in the fo namespace, but that often provides the answer that you can take back to the XSLT domain."

Dave Pawson p. 175: "The PDF produced by the RenderX stylesheets is good. All cross-references are to page numbers and section numbers, so it really is a joy to use, ..."

John E. Simpson p. 542: "Second, in that documentation RenderX has been very forthcoming about the things Xep doesn't do-and (quite impressively and convincingly, I thought) about why it does't do those things." John E. Simpson p. 543: "And third, RenderX has provided many valuable services to the XSL-FO community. For instance, they've come up with a DTD for XSL-FO documents which is very hard to argue with - and which can be invaluable when you're trying to figure out which element may contain which other elements, ..."

John E. Simpson p. 543: "...as impressed as I am with Xep, however, it's hard for me to recommend the retail (non-crippled version). The RenderX Web site shows a sliding "server-based" price schedule, wherein the exact amount for a license depends on how many processors the server is running."

John E. Simpson p.573: "www.renderx.com/Tests/validator/fo.dtd.html (HTML format) www.renderx.com/Tests/validator/fo.td (pure text DTD format) Part of the key to understanding any XML vocabulary in depth is being able to see how its content model is formally expressed, as a DTD or XML."

Benoît Marchal p. 188: "In 2002 FOP supported only a subset of XSL-FO; RenderX supported all - one of the first formatters compliant with the specification."

Steven Holzner p. 333: "XEP from RenderX http://www.renderx.com".(A list of FO formatters - RenderX is mentioned there as well.)

Michael Morrison p. 206: "However, if you'd like to begin experimenting with XSL-FO on your own, you can obtain a free evaluation XSL-FO formatter called XEP on the Web at http://www.renderx.com/FO2PDF.html. XEP is an XSL processor that is capable of using XSL-FO to render XML documents into a viewable format, such as Adobe Acrobat (PDF). XEP is made available by RenderX, Inc."

Websites
Kristine Hansen (Dec 20, 2004) "Use the flexibility of XEP to render and publish XML presentations".

"Using Stylus Studio® with RenderX XEP".

"RenderX XEP Setup in oXygen".

Books where Renderx software was used to format XSL-FO documents
1. XML in Office 2003: information sharing with Desktop XML‎ - by Charles F. Goldfarb, Priscilla Walmsley - Computers - 2004 - 540 pages.

2. Definitive XML schema‎ - by Priscilla Walmsley - Computers - 2002 - 528 pages.

3. Definitive VoiceXML‎ - by Adam Hocek, David Cuddihy - Computers - 2002 - 461 pages.

4. Definitive XML application development‎ - by Lars Marius Garshol - Computers - 2002 - 1165 pages.

5. Charles F. Goldfarb's XML handbook‎ - by Charles F. Goldfarb, Paul Prescod - Computers - 2004 - 1222 pages.

6. XSLT 2.0 Web development‎ - by Dmitry Kirsanov - Computers - 2004 - 406 pages.

7. Definitive XSLT and XPath‎ - by G. Ken Holman - Computers - 2002 - 373 pages.