Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects (XSL-FO)
XML for print
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Not quite the browser, but...
XSL-FO is aimed at print output, not Web viewing, but it offers a convenient mechanism for converting on-screen documents to printouts - if the source is in XML and a stylesheet is provided.
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A different conception of pages
Web 'pages' can have arbitrary length and width. Paper documents have a variety of fixed sizes and a set of tools for use in coping with their size and sequence issues. XSL-FO is about print pages.
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PDF, or not
Developers can use XSL-FO to create PDFs. If a document is produced in an XML format, it's possible to use one XSLT transformation to produce HTML and another to produce XSL-FO, distributed to the reader as PDF.
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