Rating: 

Having learned XML and XSLT fundamentals, I was struggling with XSL-FO until this book came along.

Dave Pawson's exposition of XSL-FO is very well laid out,taking the reader through the various aspects of the XSL-FO specification in a logical order and in a way which enabled me to get results quickly.

The appendices provide a valuable additional resource.

It would be nice to see a companion volume (perhaps in the oreilly workbook style) showing some sample applications developed with some of the leading tools. The relative lack of tool specific information still left me with a lot of work to do and I'm often in the position of not being sure whether there is a compliance issue with the tool I'm using (FOP) or with my level of knowledge.

I would recommend this book to anyone seriously interested in producing printed output from XML.