Advantages of XML based publishing with XSLfast

The deployment of modern XML and XSL-FO technology allows for tremendous time-saving, and has a correspondingly high savings potential.

Fast results

Nowadays, many layout stylesheets are still created manually, aided by text editors. For example, many webservers use java or php programming libraries to create pdf documents on the fly. Building the correct output formats consumes a lot of time and many try and error runs, because the result is only visible after closing the PDF viewer and reloading the designed webpage.
Another typical way to create standardized output documents is to use DTP or office products like InDesign or Word and copy the specific data in the form. This is hard work if you need to create hundreds of documents or just some documents on the fly.

XSLfast is a tool which enables the user to create layout elements (XSL-FO style sheets) with an intuitive graphical user interface, thereby simplifying and accelerating the layout creation process considerably.

Why use XSLfast?

Design templates for database publishing or print-on-demand
Create forms, catalogs, product sheets, invoices, price lists...
Page oriented layout for XML documents
No programming skills necessary
Easy to use, WYSIWYG, drag&drop
XPath and XSL support for advanced users
Create layout templates in minutes instead of hours

Easy to use

With XSLfast, the creation of multilingual documents with one layout is simple and the easy-to-use graphical interface enables a pixel-exact positioning of static and dynamic objects in an WYSIWYG environment.

Widely used standard technologies

XML and XSL-FO are widely used standard technologies perfectly suited for publishing, cross media and forms processing applications.

While XSLfast does not have all database capabilities of a reporting tool, it can take additonal XML files or the output of other applications producing XML events and merge this data into the templates.