The First Contact with FO.NET

I had a training recently on XSLT and XSL-FO. We were using java Apache FOP there. I was quite interested in the technology and was keen to give FO.NET a try.

Yesterday, I got to it finally. I found two drawbacks so far. Attribute width on inline element had no effect and I only found a workaround by using table. Then I discovered that block-container is not supported by FO.NET. But since you can have nested blocks, it is not a big issue.

I only worked with relatively simple document, so I guess there may be much more issues when using FO.NET. Still I was pleased with the output. I think FO.NET (and XSL-FO in general) might be a good option for creating PDF documents, especially when the source data are in XML.