Here's a short excerpt from a great 18th Century British novel. Enjoy!
WHEN Jenny appeared, Mr. Allworthy took her into his study, and spoke to her as follows: "You know, child, it is in my power as a magistrate, to punish you very rigorously for what you have done; and you will, perhaps, be the more apt to fear I should execute that power, because you have in a manner laid your sins at my door.
"But, perhaps, this is one reason which hath determined me to act in a milder manner with you: for, as no private resentment should ever influence a magistrate, I will be so far from considering your having deposited the infant in my house as an aggravation of your offence, that I will suppose, in your favour, this to have proceeded from a natural affection to your child, since you might have some hopes to see it thus better provided for than was in the power of yourself, or its wicked father, to provide for it. I should indeed have been highly offended with you had you exposed the little wretch in the manner of some inhuman mothers, who seem no less to have abandoned their humanity, than to have parted with their chastity. It is the other part of your offence, therefore, upon which I intend to admonish you, I mean the violation of your chastity; -- a crime, however lightly it may be treated by debauched persons, very heinous in itself, and very dreadful in its consequences....
Here are some HTML elements that should put FOP through its paces.
Now is the time for all good men and women to come
to the aid of the party. The quick brown fox jumped
over the lazy dog. Every good boy deserves
fudge. Jackdaws love like my big sphinx of quartz.
The previous section featured a number of text effects:
Here they are again, ranked according to how I like 'em:
Finally, let's define these things in a definition list, just to have something else to write about.
This lovely document was produced by the Apache XML Project's FOP:
Here are some advanced lists. This one uses uppercase Roman numerals:
This list uses lowercase Roman numerals starting at 17:
This one uses lowercase alpha characters and starts at 30:
This list uses uppercase alpha characters and starts at 12:
Mapping HTML table tags to XSL-FO tables has some difficulties.
The biggest problems are supporting the cols attribute
of the <table> element, and supporting the
rowspan and colspan attributes of the
<td> element. Here's a table that illustrates
all of the things we support:
| State | Abbr |
|---|---|
| North Carolina | NC |
| California | CA |
| Tennessee | TN |
| Texas and Connecticut |
TX |
| CT | |
| That's all! | |
This section goes through more HTML tags we support.
Supporting links is very important to us here at developerWorks. This sample document contains both internal and external links; if you don't believe me, just read the excerpt from Tom Jones earlier in this document.
This is not my address:
Mrs. Mary McGoonNow for a paragraph with boldfaced text, big text,
bigger text, biggest text, and
three
line
breaks.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Blah blah blah
Blah blah blah
Blah blah blah
Blah blah blah
Blah blah blah
Blah blah blah
Here's some text that's before the <nobr> tag.
Here's a simple Java program, formatted with the <pre> element:
public class Sample
{
public static void main(String [] args)
{
System.out.println("Hello, World!");
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
{
System.out.print("How");
System.out.print("dy! ");
}
System.out.println();
}
}
This paragraph tests out the sample element (<samp>), small text (<small>), subscript text, superscript text, a keyboard command, and a variable name.