Free Tools

RenderX provides many freely available tools to help you with projects including validators and sample style sheets. Feel free to download them and change to suit your specific requirements.

Microsoft WordprocessingML to XSL FO (XSLFO) Converter

As John Durant reported in his weblog, "WordprocessingML is hot, hot, hot!". These style sheets were prepared by RenderX's development team and Microsoft for general use. They are designed to convert Microsoft's WordprocessingML to XSL FO (XSLFO). Here you will find links to download the style sheets and related components from the Microsoft web site to assist you in your projects involving Word and XSL FO (XSLFO).

Adobe InDesign INX to XSL FO (XSLFO) Converter

RenderX's development team has prepared a set of stylesheets designed to convert Adobe InDesign Interchange (INX) documents to XSL FO (XSLFO). Here you will find link to download the stylesheets.
Adobe InDesign is a general purpose design tool.
The combination InDesign and RenderX XEP, using these stylesheets enables developers to put together a total
solution - an easy-to-use designer with a high-volume, batch formatting engine for high performance merge and print.
You also can download trial version of Adobe InDesign CS2 from the Adobe web site.

XSL FO (XSLFO) to HTML Conversion

XSL Formatting Objects are an XML dialect so you can render them to HTML using an XSLT stylesheet. This free converter is an attempt to do just that. You can download the style sheets along with a copy of the RenderX trial software from the download section.

XSL FO (XSLFO) Validators

This area has XSL FO (XSLFO) schemata and validation tools developed at RenderX. The tools use DTD, XSLT, and Relax NG, many of these were used to validate input in various versions of XEP.

Barcode Generator

These pages include a library of SVG barcode generators developed by the RenderX technical team, including a live demonstration of servlet connector from the Connectivity Kit. These generators are tested to work with the XEP Engine. Barcodes are simple to represent but difficult to generate. These examples use XSLT to implement the computational part and SVG to draw the image. The complete set is freely available to use in your applications.