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XEP Description What is XEP? XEP is an XSL Formatting Objects processor that takes layout data represented in XSL-FO - either as a standalone XSL Formatting Objects document, or an arbitrary XML document coupled with an XSL-FO stylesheet. What can XEP be used for? XEP can be used either as a standalone formatter for XML/XSL-FO documents, or as a component in applications that need to generate high quality printable representations of data - PDF or Postscript - as a part of an XML workflow. Hardware and OS XEP is available on two platforms: Java and .NET. Both versions are based on the same code, and are identical in functionality and XSL-FO coverage. Conformance XEP conforms to the following version of XSL Formatting Objects: W3C Recommendation of October 15, 2001. It can take input from a file, a byte stream, or a parsed XML document (via industry-standard SAX2 or DOM interfaces). More information about XEP conformance can be found in XEP documentation. Target Formats Currently supported output formats are PDF version 1.3 and Postscript Level 2 or 3. More output formats can be added to the system. XEP builds an exact internal representation of page layouts and then outputs it to the desired media using only the simplest graphic primitives. The final layout data can be externalized in an XML-based form. Its format is documented in developer and server editions of XEP, to give XEP's users the ability to implement custom output handlers or postprocessors. This provides extra flexibility in storing and/or manipulating formatted documents. |