Arved Sandstrom, release co-ordinator for FOP, has announced a major new release of the Apache XSL formatting objects processor.

Sandstrom writes:

We are well on the way to releasing a FOP 1.0 late this year which has full Extended Conformance with the XSL FO spec.

The new version includes:

• pagination updated to 03/27/2000 XSL WD
• support for fo page-number-citation
• support for 06/29/2000 SVG WD + W3C Java DOM bindings
• image support using Jimi
• support for external and internal simple-links
• support for the fonts Symbol and ZapfDingbats
• support for fo:instream-foreign-object
• the AWT viewer supports, with restrictions, the SVG CR

FOP can be downloaded from the Apache XML Project web site.