FO Processors

Besides the built-in formatting objects processor (Apache FOP) other external processors can be configured and set in transformation scenarios for processing XSL-FO documents.

Oxygen XML Author plugin has implemented an easy way to add two of the most used commercial FO processors: RenderX XEP and Antenna House XSL Formatter. You can easily add RenderX XEP as external FO processor if the user has the XEP installed. Also, if you have the Antenna House XSL Formatter v4 or v5, Oxygen XML Author plugin uses the environmental variables set by the XSL Formatter installation to detect and use it for XSL-FO transformations. If the environmental variables are not set for the XSL Formatter installation, you can browse and choose the executable just as you would for XEP.

The FO Processors preferences panel is opened from menu Window > Preferences > Author > XML > XSLT/FO/XQuery > FO Processors.

The FO Processors Preferences Panel

Apache FOP

The options for FO processors are the following:

External FO processors

In this section you can manage the external FO processors you want to use in transformation scenarios. Press the New button to add a new external FO processor. The following dialog is displayed:

The External FO Processor Configuration Dialog