Editing XSL Formatting Objects (section)

{{Short description|Markup language}}
{{Infobox file format
| name          = XSL Formatting Objects
| icon          = 
| logo          = 
| extension     = .xml, .fo
| mime          = <code>application/xml</code>,<br /><code>text/xml</code>&nbsp;(deprecated)
| _nomimecode   = yes
| type code     = 
| uniform type  = public.xml
| magic         = 
| owner         = [[World Wide Web Consortium]] (W3C)
| genre         = [[Markup language]]
| latest_release_version = 1.1
| latest_release_date = {{release date and age|2006|12|5}}
| container for = 
| contained by  = [[XML]]
| extended from = 
| extended to   = 
| standard      = 
| open          = Yes
| url           = {{url|https://www.w3.org/TR/xsl11/}}
}}
'''XSL-FO''' ('''XSL Formatting Objects''') is a [[markup language]] for [[XML]] document formatting that is most often used to generate [[PDF]] files. XSL-FO is part of [[Extensible Stylesheet Language|XSL]] (Extensible Stylesheet Language), a set of [[W3C]] technologies designed for the transformation and formatting of XML data. The other parts of XSL are [[XSL Transformations|XSLT]] and [[XPath]].  Version 1.1 of XSL-FO was published in 2006.

XSL-FO is considered [[feature complete]] by W3C:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.w3.org/standards/techs/xsl#w3c_all|title=XSL-FO Current Status - W3C|website=www.w3.org|access-date=2016-08-05}}</ref> the last update for the Working Draft was in January 2012, and its Working Group closed in November 2013.<ref name="w3cClosed"
>{{cite mailing list |url= http://www.biglist.com/lists/lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/archives/201311/msg00012.html|title= Re: [xsl] xsl 2.0?|date=November 2, 2013|mailing-list=[http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list/index.html XSL-List – Open Forum on XSL]|last=Quin |first=Liam}}</ref>